The 19 tell-tale signs an article was written by AI
“Did AI write this sentence?” That’s become the question of this year. It’s probably our biggest conundrum since Hamlet got all indecisive while chatting to a hollowed out skull. It’s rolled together all our 21st century doubts and insecurities of Fake News, The Matrix, and misinformation.
If you’re reading content online in 2023, it’s a question you want answered. And if you’re writing content online in 2023 with the assistance of AI, it’s a question you perhaps don’t want answered. (For the record: I do write this blog. Last I checked, I’m a real human. Jiminy Cricket will vouch for me 🧚🏻♂️).AI writers are engaged in a cloak-and-dagger routine not dissimilar to Cold War espionage. Think about it: during those times, spies would pass coded messages, employ deception, and use the technology of their era to get the upper hand. Now, our “espionage” is the realm of information and content creation. It’s a Turing Test where some copywriters are assuming false identities and trying to conceal whether AI had a hand in their content.
This digital shadow realm is like a spy-game where creators and consumers need to be discerning, questioning, and aware. With AI capabilities at our fingertips, the cards we hold are more powerful than ever, and knowing when and how to play them is our best defence, and the art of the game.Why you need to be able to spot AI content yourself
Readers shouldn’t be relying on content detectors (or assuming Google will protect them from AI content), and AI assisted writers shouldn’t be fretting (or thinking big tech is out to get them). There’s always been chatter that AI will harm SEO, and that search engine algorithms will buffer readers from non-human written content. That isn’t the case, and would be impossible to implement. Language is language, at the end of the day. SEO does prioritize relevance, engagement, and authenticity, so there is some truth to it, but it…
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