Short answer: Google punishes unhelpful content, not AI content. They've said so explicitly.
What actually gets sites buried is publishing raw AI output at scale — a hundred generic posts that say what every other site says. What ranks fine: AI-drafted posts that a human edited, fact-checked, and added something real to — your data, your experience, your opinion, your screenshots.
The workflow that works: outline yourself (that's the strategy), let a tool like Jasper or Claude draft, then rewrite the parts that sound like everyone else. Your voice is the moat; AI is the typing.
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