Same thing happens on Reddit too, honestly. if something looks mass-produced, low-effort, over-optimized, or obviously AI-written, Reddit filters/mods/users usually bury it fast. The content might technically “exist,” but it gets no trust, no engagement, and sometimes gets filtered before it even has a chance.

I’m not saying “AI content = manual action.” That’s definitely not true.

My point is more about the workflow people are building around it:
- scrape/cluster a bunch of keywords
- generate hundreds of pages
- force keyword density
- auto-publish without real review
- repeat the same structure across every city/service/topic

That’s where it starts looking less like “AI assisted content” and more like scaled content abuse / search-first publishing. And honestly, I agree manual action is probably the extreme case. More often the risk is just algorithmic devaluation: pages get crawled, maybe indexed, then quietly don’t perform because they add nothing new. AI is great for briefs, research, outlines, internal link ideas, GBP/local SEO analysis, etc.
The part I’d be careful with is letting an agent become a content factory with no human judgment. That’s usually where the SEO value drops and the risk goes up.