GSC 'Discovered - currently not indexed' 22 Cases: The Day AI Rewritten Articles Were Rejected by Google

Zero Google impressions. My sitemap is submitted, but nothing is indexed. Inspecting each article via the URL Inspection API revealed 22 out of 42 were judged NEUTRAL. The cause was content duplication signals created by retrospective AI-rewritten ar

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One-Line Summary

My sitemap has all 42 posts, I pinged IndexNow, and registered sitemap.xml on GSC, but for 3 months I've had 3 impressions / 0 clicks. I inspected each post with the URL Inspection API and found that 22 posts were "Discovered – currently not indexed." Google knew about the URLs from the sitemap but judged the pages as "not worth indexing."

Symptoms

Google Search Console — 3 impressions / 0 clicks (cumulative over 3 months)

sitemap.xml — All 42 published posts were listed normally

GSC 'Discovered - currently not indexed' 22 Cases: The Day AI Rewritten Articles Were Rejected by Google

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