A billion data points confirm AI loves "Best X" lists — until it doesn't (x.com)
43.8% is not a quality score — it's a census. Listicles dominate AI citations for the same reason they dominated Google search: they make up most of the web, and that is what the models trained on.
In the same thread, one reply put a deadline on it: 'six months until the chatbots start penalizing the pattern.' SEO's two-year trap, new platform.
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