Google On How Googlebot Handles AI Generated Content

Google's Martin Splitt explained that Googlebot's crawling and rendering process is not significantly affected by the increase in AI-generated content, as Google already applies quality detection at multiple stages to determine if a webpage is low quality before rendering it.

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