Is AI-Generated Content an Issue?

AI-generated content versus Human

Recently, a trend has emerged around detecting AI-generated content and indicating the percentage of text created by AI versus humans. Several clients have expressed concerns that some texts generated by PulseWeaver have been flagged as AI-produced, raising worries about their brand image.

In this article, we’ll explore this phenomenon together and determine whether it’s significant and if humanizing articles is necessary.

For the Readers

Quality content is a central criterion for PulseWeaver, and it’s constantly emphasized in almost all strategy guidelines. When someone arrives on your site, their primary interest is to get an answer or information they need. The best site for them is the one that provides this answer.

Once multiple sites offer the answer, factors like speed, ergonomics, and other criteria come into play to rank the site’s quality in the reader’s eyes. Detecting AI-generated content is often only possible through experience, by spotting repetitive patterns that signal AI authorship.

Users, especially in the case of chatbots, have shown a preference for interacting with real agents in numerous studies and surveys. However, when seeking an answer, the writing style is noticed only after factors like site ergonomics, loading speed, and readability. Many elements can impact user experience and visit frequency long before they consider the writing style.

For Google and Other Search Engines

We have previously discussed important points for Google, which are also crucial in the algorithms used by Google to rank sites in its search results. read more about this article. But once again, for Google, Bing, or any other search engine, the quality of content, site speed, and structure are the primary criteria that make an initial difference.

Additional criteria then rank sites with similar scores in these basic metrics. Therefore, a high-quality article providing valid answers and information is more relevant to Google than a human-written article that is less relevant or harder to use for finding an answer.

Finding Experts Who Can Write

What is the likelihood of finding experts in any field who are also proficient writers and can manage a site or blog to share articles about their expertise? Consider examples: what are the chances a mechanic is an expert at writing a Word tutorial on buying a used car? Or a landscape gardener creating a guide to garden maintenance? Or a heating technician writing a guide on saving heating costs?

These individuals are the best sources for such advice, not a web journalist who interviewed professionals and presents an article based on their understanding. Did they really understand everything correctly, or might there be some errors in the transcription?

Own It, You’ll Be Valued!

Using AI for writing and presenting it as your own production is a fatal mistake! Yes, AI involvement in part of the text can be detected, confirming the deception. So, how do we know the rest isn’t also AI-generated?

Failing to acknowledge that an article was generated or rewritten by AI is a serious misstep! Conversely, if the author clearly states that thanks to AI, they can now share their knowledge to help those seeking this information—something they couldn’t do before due to lack of writing skills with proper spelling and syntax—this transparency adds credibility.

They communicate the information and examples they want to share, even with spelling mistakes, and the AI transforms it into a well-written article. No reader will view this negatively. On the contrary, it lends more credibility because we know that professionals, especially in technical fields, typically aren’t adept at writing guides or articles. Therefore, the content is more likely to be trusted because it indirectly confirms it comes from a professional.

Finally, Is Being Flagged as AI Important?

To conclude this debate, let’s add a data point that will dispel any remaining doubts: the case of OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT.

Has any IT startup in history managed to reach a higher number of active users faster than OpenAI did within six months of ChatGPT’s public launch? And it couldn’t be clearer: the responses and texts are generated by AI. Yet, it’s an undeniable success. Users have different needs, but they all trust AI-generated responses or creations without always knowing the reference used for generating the answers.

So, when it’s about AI responses, and we also know the professionals who provided the information used by the AI for the article, trust is further enhanced.

Stay Focused!

For a professional, sharing AI-generated content, as discussed in this article, can be well-received if communicated honestly. If it were for students or other use cases, the analysis might differ. But for PulseWeaver, the focus is on quality and originality.

The result you receive from PulseWeaver, even if detectable as AI-generated, is finely crafted, requiring multiple articles to spot a recurring pattern. This avoids a common pattern for all PulseWeaver users, as unique content is more impactful than whether it’s detectable as AI-generated or not.