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Google Doesn't Penalize AI Content. That's Actually the Harder Problem.

In 2022, a Europol report made a prediction that circulated through every marketing Slack channel for months: 90% of online content would be AI-generated by 2026. The prediction was scary enough to share and vague enough to believe. Four years later, we are at the deadline. And the answer is

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The Semrush AI Content Study Is Only as Reliable as GPTZero (Which Isn't Great)

Semrush dropped a stat on April 1 that's already getting quoted everywhere: human-written content holds Google's #1 position about 80% of the time, while purely AI-generated content only shows up there 10% of the time. That works out to roughly 8x, and it reads like a