This is the way: AI appears to optimize just like SEO.

When search-enabled LLMs hit the market, the same content from top spots I held became the cited sources.

AIO = just publish as much as possible? NGMI.

Publish better content with better metadata frameworks.

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Yes!! Couldn’t agree more. 

Pt. 2 of this cast (but then it was too long so I deleted) was that the difference now is actually a new paradigm for how to channel visibility and awareness—no longer just how to be “at the top.”

Become machine-readable instead of human-readable is bleak indeed 😭

But, IMO:
get to top of page + capture CTR 
becomes 
get top citation + become the summary answer

Good insight. I’ve started to think about the near future when people will not even read your content. On X they will ask Grok for a summary and carry on. That’s already becoming a behavior. It’s a pretty bleak reality but that’s where it is all headed. 

Post content for the AI so it summarizes you well. 😭