Yeah after the CNET AI article controversy (as well as the many botted article sites I see appearing now) it seems like SEO for legit sites is effectively rendered obsolete. It's much easier to push out an increasing number of fake articles, as long as they can keep up with whatever the tending searches are. Keep in mind most searches don't get you to legitimate sites other than huge ones like wikipedia now anyway. Most search queries will return Wikipedia, reddit, and quora.
There's one site in particular that copypastes text about arbitrary topics and organizes it under subheadings which you can click at the top of the page. The information is often contradictory but the articles are so yuge they can appear on the first page of google when searching recipes, questions about car parts, medicine, literally anything