AI Content Posters could be harming your forum!

[Shawn Gossman]

Found an interesting article about how content scaling is problematic for Google and search engines in general.

Here's what Google is saying:

“The lowest rating applies if all or almost all of the MC on the page (including text, images, audio, videos, etc) is copied, paraphrased, embedded, auto or AI generated, or reposted from other sources with little to no effort, little to no originality, and little to no added value for visitors to the website. Such pages should be rated Lowest, even if the page assigns credit for the content to another source.”

So, if someone on your forum is posting AI-generated content and Google detects it, no matter if they leave credit or not (99.999% of the time, they don't leave credit), it may give your forum a lower ranking.

Full article and source of above quote: Google On Scaled Content: "It's Going To Be An Issue"

So, what can we do about it? I'd almost think adding AI-generation content creation rules and banning might be a solution. What do you all think?

 

[Cpvr]

Found an interesting article about how content scaling is problematic for Google and search engines in general.

Here's what Google is saying:


So, if someone on your forum is posting AI-generated content and Google detects it, no matter if they leave credit or not (99.999% of the time, they don't leave credit), it may give your forum a lower ranking.

Full article and source of above quote: Google On Scaled Content: "It's Going To Be An Issue"

So, what can we do about it? I'd almost think adding AI-generation content creation rules and banning might be a solution. What do you all think?

Food for thought:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1904380371770245148

https://twitter.com/x/status/1907161979678036170

reddit is also ai it to translate a lot of their posts, which is deemed “scaled content abuse”, but since it’s reddit”, they get away with it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1905637908289036788

https://twitter.com/x/status/1907405603732885705

Using automated systems to create content can lead to a total deindex as seen here: The use of AI bots on forums

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Hey @Genesis You've been adding some AI plugins to our resources. I've noticed some are AI related. What do you think about this topic?

 

[Nomad]

Forums thrive on genuine discussion, these discussions might not be very informative or very useful, or even poorly written but as long as these are created by humans that will work for forums. But sadly these days a lot of forum users are using AI to post on forums, and forums are losing their charm.

 

[Genesis]

Hey @Genesis You've been adding some AI plugins to our resources. I've noticed some are AI related. What do you think about this topic?

Hey!

This policy has been around for a long time and is not really anything new. Google's policy has always been aimed at promoting sites with unique content. For example, you can still generate articles using AI if you use a unique approach to generating them and it should not affect your indexing. It is also important to remember that it is mathematically impossible to determine that text is AI generated, here are some useful articles on this topic:
Reliably detecting AI-generated text is mathematically impossible
Is it Possible to Detect AI-Generated Text?

So everything is as before: if your site has unique content, is useful to users and people use it, AI bots will not worsen your positions in Google, but on the contrary, can improve them. But if you completely imitate activity and a majority of a content on your forum is copy-pasted AI articles written for a simple request like "Write an article about the Super Bowl", you probably will not achieve serious success in its promotion, as was the case with copy-pasted texts from other sources before the advent of AI.

We hope our comment will shed some light on this controversial issue and add some clarity to it