...the more will be used to train A.I. and it will only get worse as A.I. feeds on itself like that.

to get all that slop off the internet so it will keep feeding itself. Maybe people will actually become more discerning instead as their senses are assaulted. Sure is a new world.

that maybe it would backfire.

AI itself isn't inherently bad, but how it is used, controlled, and integrated into our information systems will determine whether it benefits society or contributes to a crisis of misinformation.

Some comments in your link show a couple workarounds:

Append either of the following phrases at the end of any of your searches and they modify your returned results by either removing ai generator’s content or only returns content from before AI was ubiquitous:

"stable diffusion" -"ai" -"midjourney"
Or
"2021 and earlier"

AI has kilt the internets…

Ironically this might push some people back to old-fashioned books and newspapers 🤔