[pierrefar]

This article is way out of date and wrong, although published recently (at least according to the timestamp).

Google's official position was published on 8 February here:

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/google-sea...

It's a much more nuanced position that can be summarized as "make sure you create good content, however you create it". A focus on quality, not process, is reasonable.

Disclosure: ex-Googler in search.

[hirako2000]

Thanks for the actual source, seems like ex's are often the one who care the most.

About the news article title, looks like it's trendy to make Google seemingly worried about chatGPT. and it's been a trend to claim google penalises its potential competitor via the means it can (search).

With google quality content challenges, it makes sense they would focus on quality, and if AI generated is what make search users click more that's what it will feed most, especially if that's promoted content, as it has always been.