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Google recently cut 'people' from its Search guidelines. Now, website owners say a flood of AI content is pushing them down in search results. (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Those are just two voices in a chorus complaining that Google's latest "helpful content" update – which is meant to improve the quality of search results – has sent their websites tumbling down the rankings.

The tweak in wording actually reflects a change Google announced in February that it would promote AI-generated content in search so long as it's considered high quality.

Google Search advocate John Mueller spent the day trying to calm some website owners down, while explaining the goals of the company's recent update.

One comment stood out as an inadvertent condemnation of Google's own AI model efforts, which include pitching newsrooms on having its machines write stories automatically.

Picking out which AI-powered blog or image is better than another one, amongst thousands on the same subject — all automatically published within a few hours — will be a herculean task, even for a tech company as savvy as Google.

The tech publication 404 reported on Wednesday that a search for the Tiananmen Square "tank man" was recently returning an AI-generated version of the iconic image.

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