I agree.

I also keep thinking: If ChatGPT (etc.) can write such content, and I'm interested in it, then why won't I just ask ChatGPT for the information directly rather than going to someone's bloated website?

Why is ChatGPT allowed to do it and not Google?

That is an evolution I perceive coming at some point. It will be essentially the end of all middleware.

Leveraging AI to make your business more productive is a short term temporary evolution. Longer term most businesses will have no purpose.

ChatGPT writes the averagest content possible. Only creatively dead websites will use it

A lot are hosting it because they found a way to generate revenue off of it.

"Per the report, over 141 "blue chip" — or internationally recognized — brands are unknowingly supporting hundreds of low-effort AI content farms."

https://futurism.com/content-farms-ai

Children raised on AI-generated storybooks, who think that’s just what “content” is.

(That’s unrealistically cynical… I hope.)

It will be worse. People already let cellphones and social media become toys/babysitters for children.

Next, AI will become your child's closest companion and they will bond with it greater than to their own parents.

Try finding anything good on the internet when 99% of search results are dominated by AI-generated garbage alongside the SEO-generated garbage we already have.