We are currently witnessing the era where AI is displacing humans and becoming the protagonist of production sites. Yet, are you still reassuring yourself, thinking, ‘I won’t lose out on creative work’?
When news about robots working in car factories or serving customers at counters appears on TV, one can’t help but feel that the day when AI takes center stage in the economy is just around the corner, leading to a sense of powerlessness. The field of content creation is no exception. Some of you may have heard terms like ‘AI content generator’ or ‘AI writing tool.’
In anticipation of earning revenue by applying for Google AdSense, I created three websites over a period of two weeks. During this process, I couldn’t help but marvel at the writing skills of ChatGPT. Having ChatGPT write articles for me, it took only a second to produce a blog post.
Following the recommendation of a well-known AdSense lecturer who teaches at various places, I wrote about 60 articles covering deeper topics using ChatGPT. Normally, one submits around 20 articles for review. However, when written with ChatGPT, even after some editing and tweaking later on, it took only half a day to complete 20 articles. Simply pushing through, it took about 2-3 days to write 60 articles within the same topic like a research paper. After making some adjustments to the site design, I immediately applied for AdSense review.
Will AdSense reviewers be able to tell if it’s copied and pasted?
According to some AdSense lecturers, if you copy and paste what’s generated by ChatGPT, some code remains that reviewers can detect. So, I carefully examined the coding details to see what code remains when copying and pasting. The conclusion is that no identifiable code seems to remain, no matter how much I searched. Perhaps the lecturer has a lot of experience in content creation but lacks coding knowledge. There’s no need to fear unnecessarily when copying and pasting. At most, the following codes remain:
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<strong></strong>If AI-generated content leaves behind these types of codes, then claiming that all blogs in the world are written by AI would be the same. These codes are by no means conclusive evidence. It simply means that copying and pasting is acceptable.
Generative AI adapts the format of information based on the user’s situation or purpose, often creating sentences that feel like they’re newly written, although there may be phrases that seem familiar. Therefore, it’s quite challenging to find evidence that AI-generated content has borrowed from others. In that case, it seems safe to entrust blog writing entirely to an AI content generator, doesn’t it?
Never rely solely on AI or ChatGPT to write blog posts.
Just because you can’t find traces of copying and pasting doesn’t mean that relying on AI content generators or AI writing tools to write your content will yield good results. Writing blog posts with AI still requires time and effort. Spend your valuable time creating more meaningful content. Let me explain why.
Thinking robots
AI that thinks like humans
The AI Era, Google’s concerns
The era where it takes only a second to create a blog post.
Is Google happy? I don’t think so. In the age of the World Wide Web where information overload is a problem, Google has to rate information and expose certain content at the top among all that information. Even without the emergence of AI, it’s a tough job.
Now, let’s consider the ability to write a research paper in just one day with AI. Google simply can’t handle that.
Without establishing different algorithms and principles from the past and swiftly adapting, Google might no longer be able to function properly and may even perish in the flood of information. Google needs to survive too.
Google’s concerns also emerge in AdSense reviews. A certain famous lecturer suggested submitting 20 blog posts on psychology or other scholarly deep topics for AdSense. But unfortunately, that doesn’t work anymore. AI can produce such articles in the blink of an eye, flooding the web with them. Naturally, AdSense can’t give high scores to blogs posting such articles.
If you try to elaborate university-level textbook content into blog posts, you’re likely to fail the review. Google considers such posts either worthless content or Thin Contents. Blogs containing such posts are seen as forcibly creating information. AI is very capable of creating content suitable for textbooks. So, Google dislikes it.
Even when you try to direct AI not to write such posts, strangely, it still produces content that feels that way. If you ask it to write in a conversational tone, it does so, but the content feels thin. It’s unlikely to pass Google’s review.
So, what should we do?
Requesting information from AI and writing based on it is no different from finding topics through web searches. It’s not inherently wrong, and without AI, modern society cannot have adequate productivity. With the emergence of AI, we can approach topics more quickly and write more efficiently.
However, stop at gathering topics and let AI handle it. Creating fresh and interesting content based on gathered topics is still the realm of humans. What the future holds is uncertain…
Did my Google AdSense review pass?
My first AdSense review application ended in failure like this. It’s because I trusted too much in the past experiences of the lecturers and ChatGPT. The quality of the writing was impeccable, but it lacked originality. And Google is pushing forward with ‘originality’ as the most important principle in rating information.
By the way, Google’s algorithm is always changing. No one knows what will become important later. However, in the current environment where AI content is pouring out, Google’s survival strategy is to emphasize originality. It’s very different from the past when they kindly exposed whatever was uploaded, whether it was copied or not.
What is originality?
‘Originality’ encompasses creativity, problem-solving ability, and utility. You might think that as long as you don’t copy, it’s original. But remember, what Google considers ‘originality’ goes beyond that. Even if it’s purely created by yourself, if it lacks empathy from others or is not useful to people, it’s just thin content. If the traces of your struggles and deliberation are deeply embedded in the writing, then the chances of it being original are high.