use ai for first drafts on guest posts regularly, never had a publisher reject or a link get devalued specifically bcuz of it, wat actually kills placements is when its obviously unedited n generic sounding, publishers can smell that instantly n either reject or bury it w no real placement value. my process is ai draft then heavy human edit for specific examples/data/actual opinion, basically make it sound like someone who actually knows the topic wrote it not just structured info. link value wise havent seen any diff in how these perform vs fully human written ones, google cares more if the page ranks n gets real traffic than how it was originally drafted