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I think the point is that Google is creating an incentive to have useless content on your website if you want to show ads on it.

Useless content entirely separate from the ads themselves, that is.

That was the author's point, but I think it is undermined by the fact that the ads on the page are more obnoxious than the AI-generated content. The AI generated content is nicely hidden away underneath the huge banner ad and the full screen popup ad that the author wanted to include.

Everyone in the world should be excused from paying bills

Not only did they choose to make their website worse for money, doing so encourages Google to continue doing this.

This all coming from "an anticapitalist tech blog" humoured me a little.