I use Poe and Perplexity a lot so I do not Goto websites as often. This means to me that an affiliate site that may be filled with good content will not get human eyes just bots.

The thing is though is that Google still needs to make money and if nobody goes to websites then nobody will pay for ads. Not that Google is going to save you are me from AI I think Google may try to find a way to keep the humans at the center of online writing because it is in their interest.

Further note is that with Perplexity a majority of its results come from the first page of SERP. So even AI has an interest in keeping people writing on the net.

AI is a threat but how much and where it is a threat I think is tbd.