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> 'It would be very interesting if companies and site owners wished to self-certify their site as organic with something like an /ai-free.txt.'

I'm sure you can appreciate that such an initiative would be wholesale abused from day 1.



As with anything in the industry, yes. But it would provide a basis for ranking penalties if the search engines cared about it.


I'd bet money on it being an INVERSE signal.




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