How Google Detects AI content — Julia McCoy // Content at Scale

Julia Mccoy, President of Content at Scale, delves into AI-driven copywriting. ChatGPT's birth marked a significant milestone in AI technology, but it also introduced AI detection. Consequently, content created solely using ChatGPT, without any human input, likely won’t be ranked by Google and poses a risk of negatively impacting your website's standing. Today, Julia discusses how Google detects AI content.
About the speaker

Julia McCoy

Content at Scale

 - Content at Scale

Julia is President of Content at Scale

Show Notes

  • 02:44
    The rise of AI detection tools
    "AI detection" is a brand-new concept that emerged alongside tools like ChatGPT. AI detectors evaluate text patterns for robotic tones and incentivize better writing as lazy writing is penalized along with robotic-sounding content.
  • 05:12
    How AI detection is driving higher quality web content
    The rise of AI detection signifies a shift in the way Google is evaluating web content. Now part of Google page quality rater guidelines, AI detection filters out poor-quality, keyword-stuffed content that shouldn't have been ranking in the first place.
  • 07:33
    Distinguishing AI detection from Google's previous approach to content quality
    Previously, we didnt have AI detection technology to determine how robotic text is. However, the emergence of ChatGPT brought with it AI detection, so if youre using ChatGPT with no human oversight, Google is unlikely to rank your content pieces.
  • 08:50
    Googles penalization of AI watermarked content
    Earlier this year, OpenAI allegedly proposed watermarking for Google to identify unedited ChatGPT content. Google announced that it won't rank OpenAI watermarked content as this is indicative of content published directly from ChatGPT without human editing.
  • 10:27
    How to avoid getting flagged for AI generated content
    Paraphrasing AI-generated content and editing to remove predictable LLM phrasing can prevent flagging. Tools like Content at Scale offer paraphrasing features to improve and humanize AI-generated content, avoiding robotic-sounding phrases that might trigger detection.
  • 12:08
    Avoiding plagiarism when using AI generated content
    Copyscape, which is built into Content at Scales solution, can be used to determine if ChatGPT content is plagiarized. The key to getting content ranked on Google is ensuring its original, easy to read, sounds human-written, and AI undetectable.

Quotes

  • "The birth of ChatGPT gave us AI detection, creating a catch 22 where one led to the other, yet the latter now impedes the former." - Julia Mccoy

  • "AI detectors are driving the art of better writing as sloppy, lazy writing is also getting penalized along with 100% robotic sounding sentences." - Julia Mccoy

  • "Google has announced they'll be checking for watermarks and that it wont be ranking watermarked content as that indicates unedited, ChatGPT-published content." - Julia Mccoy

  • "LLM phrasing is so predictable that it's going to 100% be perceived as robotic, not rank at all, and could set your site back. Ensure you paraphrase anything that's coming out of AI to make it sound human." - Julia Mccoy

  • "Always think about, is this original? Does it read well? Does it sound like a human wrote it? Is it undetectable? Content has to pass all of those areas for it to rank in Google." - Julia Mccoy

About the speaker

Julia McCoy

Content at Scale

 - Content at Scale

Julia is President of Content at Scale

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