> It's basically standard SEO but it also manipulates AI like ChatGPT very very easily

There are key differences.

1) Google doesn't get paid for the SEO, so even is crime is involved, Google isn't directly responsible.

2) AI ads are unmarked, which is illegal pretty much everywhere. And because of the way LLMs work, it is impossible to tell where a given output came from, neither which part of the prompt/context nor whether it's from the prompt or training.

Simplest way to do is by running affiliate program for your SaaS and shady marketers will do everything to get sales if it's profitable.

The cheat code for that used to be Reddit before they got growth-hacked 10+ years ago.

This is why local AI is so important