[achow]

Does it matter?

Search engine works on how useful 'knowledge' is for the seeker. One of the parameters is how many others have back linked to the same source - among various other signals.

If AI content is highly cited and was found useful by many others, then I would want it at the top of search result.

[nicolas_lorenzi]

The question will have to be asked in the age of misinformation and misrepresentation. As it is, AI is trained on content often from trusted third parties (or scientific articles in many cases). I just ask the question of a snowball effect, where a low quality content will generate another one.

Obviously as I said and as you remind, the reputation and backlinks of a content are variables that can allow better indexing or not pages. But if these variables are also manipulated?