Google recently cut 'people' from its Search guidelines. Now, website owners say a flood of AI content is pushing them down in search results.

• A recent Google Search update is causing anger across the web.
• Some site owners say they are being pushed down in results with huge drops in traffic.
• Google recently tweaked its guidelines to permit AI-generated content.

Morgan Overholt saw half of her website's traffic disappear overnight.

"This is a joke," another person wrote on a forum for website owners. "I've got long-form content, well written, well researched, filled with original image content LOSING to 500 word AI generated crap…Google is apparently forcing publishers to generate AI spam or die."