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#81

If it's between a human or an AI copywriting SEO slop, I'm happy to see an AI take that job. SEO content marketing is so painful to read once you realize you're reading it, and I have to imagine it's as painful to write if you're a technically talented writer.

I agree with you about the majority of "SEO content marketing", but a small minority of it is done by companies who genuinely care about doing good content, that doesn't only act as lazy SEO benefit but also as good marketing for people who read it.

It's a lot harder / more expensive to produce, as it needs (at least before AI, and I guess still to some extent even using AI for now) to be written by someone on the team who genuinely understands the company's technology/product/whatever well enough to educate other people about it in an interesting way, rather than it being written by low wage SEO writers who just need a list of keywords to include in the drivel that is the sort of content you're talking about. So it makes sense that most companies go with the cheap option, but it's always nice to come across ones who produce actual interesting articles.

(It's what I've always opted for when I've overseen marketing budgets, and I think the ROI is usually worth it since balancing the extra cost is the fact that the benefits go from just SEO, to SEO + word of mouth of people sharing the interesting article they read, and the awareness of the brand that comes with it. So I recommend anyone who normally chooses lazy, low quality content for SEO to consider the upgrade!)

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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Ironically this post is doing wonders for its page rank, as people are linking to it in the comments

Now that we have better ML, maybe we could take "link sentiment" into account too.

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Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

#83
post #41

One of the issues is that the purpose of business internet writing is not to be read, but to be ranked well.

By now, Google is smart enough to not even index this garbage.

Search "Redix for Redis connections in Elixir". This Blog slop is second result.

Google encourages this.

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

#84

I don’t see how the author isn’t embarrassed. Maybe it’s just me having imposter syndrome or maybe I can self reflect, maybe. If he used AI to slop all those articles up doesn’t he know any developer can use AI to get that content through the IDE? He’s trying to game something with a tool that effectively killed off that game in the first place.

I’m a south asian guy so I’ll just say it. I’m not surprised anymore when a lot of scammy/scummy behavior turns out to be done by a south asian.

In sf too most of the scammers and scummy founders are south asian.

It’s gross and honestly as a south asian doing something legit it sucks to see them just fulfilling a stereotype.

These assholes are the same types responsible for why those societies are fucked up, being in SF most south asians I’ve met are from super wealthy families there that exploit people. Not surprising their new generation is exploiting too.

Downvote me if that upsets you but someone’s gotta call it out.

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

#85
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You should care because this website has a high ranking on Google and these 12000 posts will show up every time you search something programming related.

Stop using Google. Kagi lets you block and prioritize sites.

I have used Kagi, it's not a suitable replacement. It still struggles with relevance even compared to the garbage that is current-day Google, and is particularly bad at finding recent (less than a month or two old) information.

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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I've seen this blog slop on Google for the last month or so, no action taken whatsoever. it's mostly bullshit or regurgitated info from docs. like Google or their Search team really doesn't seem to care at all. all of a sudden a random blog website just happens to rank first page on every topic

Google used to prioritise search quality. About six years ago they decided to enshittify. Slop with more adverts is promoted over quality with fewer adverts. This isn't speculation. It came out in emails released as part of antitrust discovery.

To reiterate: Google search is shit now because they want it to be.

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#87

I don’t see how the author isn’t embarrassed. Maybe it’s just me having imposter syndrome or maybe I can self reflect, maybe. If he used AI to slop all those articles up doesn’t he know any developer can use AI to get that content through the IDE? He’s trying to game something with a tool that effectively killed off that game in the first place.

Getting a check for advertising revenue overcomes all sorts of embarrassment.

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

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The dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead but we're already way past the point where any discussion worth anything can be had on the internet itself. The problem is not that everything could be AI slop but that anything could. It simply takes the wind out the sails and makes one question what's even the point if anything could just be written by a clanker. Anything…

> The dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead Well - I would say the internet is not totally dead yet, but we approach the point of it being very useless now. I remember the 1990s era and early 2000s - it was almost innocent compared to the total slop era we have now. Young people today don't even know that Google Search was useful at one point in time. If you use Go…

Ironically, the reason I used Google the most then was because it indexed Usenet while so many other parts of the Internet offered by the other engines were "slop". My, how the turn tables.

Re: 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

#90

I suspect we'll address this by just going back to older ranking algorithms for search. We'll go back to the primary signal of good content being links from trusted sources. People gaming the content based algorithms will eventually cause their own downfall.

> I suspect we'll address this

Who is "we"? Definitely not Google or any other major tech company, they're all actively encouraging this.

> trusted sources.

What trusted sources are there that haven't yet been taken over by AI?

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