The first sentence of the article reads:

>*Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results*

This was never about articles, it is about books, though. You can't retroactively publish a book in 2021 if we're not in 2021.

It's bewildering to see how people here are so confident in their tone while arguing about things they think are said in the linked post, but don't know for sure because they never even opened it to read it.