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Where does SEO end and AI slop begin?
by barbazoo 1y ago
Where does SEO end and AI slop begin?
- CapmCrackaWaka 1y agoWherever the crowd sourcing says.
- sjs382 1y agoAnd to expand: it's a gradient, not black-and-white.
- peanut-walrus 1y agoDoes it matter? I want neither in my search results. Human slop is no better than AI slop.
- ryandrake 1y agoIt's a point often lost in these discussions. Slop was a problem long before AI. AI is just capable of rapidly scaling it beyond what the SEO human slop-producers were making previously.
- o11c 1y agoHopefully, we'll just blacklist SEO spam at the same time. Slop is slop regardless of origin.
- barbazoo 1y agoMaybe slop will be the general term for that sorta thing, happy to feed Kagi with the info needed as long as it doesn't become too big a administrative burden. User curated links, didn't we have that before, Altavista?
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Where does SEO end and AI slop begin? ...when it's generated by AI? They're two cases of the same problem: low-quality content outcompeting better information for the top results slots.
- VHRanger 1y agoWe have rules of thumb and we'll have a more technical blog post on this in ~2 weeks. You can break the AI / slop into a 4 corner matrix: 1. Not AI & Not Slop (eg. good!) 2. Not AI & slop (eg. SEO spam -- we already punished that for a long time) 3. AI & not Slop (eg. high effort AI driven content -- example would be youtuber Neuralviz) 4. AI & Slop (eg. most of the AI garbage out there) #3 is the one that tends to pose issues for people. Our position is that if the content *has a human accountable for it* and *took significant effort to produce* then it's liable to be in #3. For now we're just labelling AI versus not, and we're adapting our strategy to deal with category #3 as we learn more.
- harimau777 1y agoIt is a distinction without a difference.