I want to see if other folks are seeing the same thing or if I'm overfitting to my own data. It seems like the advice everyone took over the last couple years was essentially "AI lets you publish 10x for almost nothing so cover every possible query and let volume win." The volume definitely went up and I'd guess that 90%+ marketers are using AI daily in their workflow. From my research it looks like it isn't paying off though. In my own clients' work, I've seen organic search lose the most ground after shifting to more volume. My assumption is a couple of things. First, AI is flagging low quality content. Second, the more slop that is pushed out, the content gets flatter with each new generation because everything is using the same models. Original human writing is getting scarcer by the month and original content is really what systems need, but they're short on it.…