Ask HN: How will Google differentiate between content written by AI and human?

The chatGPT broke the internet these last days by invading the web with screenshots of the different exchanges between testers and artificial intelligence. We can ask it what we want, like writing an article or a publication (don't worry, I'm the one typing behind my keyboard).

I was wondering last night how Google (not to mention the other engines) will adapt its SEO strategies to discern a human's written content from an AI's content.

Because if everyone starts to generate articles with AIs, the web will become a pile of content created by AIs based on content written by humans for humans. But we know that training models are based on text corpora from different sources (including the web).

Where is the border? The more content generated by AIs, the more the new AIs will train on content generated by other AIs to create new content.

We will end up reading content that humans no longer wrote, which could become almost rare.

Content is one of many variables taken into account by the algorithm to index pages, but it will be interesting to see how search engines will solve this issue.

Tell me what you think:

Google results are already bad, ChatGPT will only accelerate the death of the current algorithm.

Check out this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719

I was thinking of this issue this morning, I wonder if anyone tried to create a search engine that has weight for content approved by experts and will add more smaller weight based on engagement or other factors. I think Pocket is an example for what I have in mind.

It will definitely require massive resources to make, but it will be the new trusted Google.

Question answering out of a knowledge graph.

The question will have to be asked in the age of misinformation and misrepresentation. As it is, AI is trained on content often from trusted third parties (or scientific articles in many cases). I just ask the question of a snowball effect, where a low quality content will generate another one.

Obviously as I said and as you remind, the reputation and backlinks of a content are variables that can allow better indexing or not pages. But if these variables are also manipulated?

I wrote a userscript (with help from ChatGPT) that identifies if comments on HN are written by AI or a human. I based it on https://huggingface.co/openai-detector. Its still a little shabby and only works on HN, but I imagine this is going to be required for general non-specific Internet browsing going forward.

Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/BTt1DTh.png