Google wants its raters to assign the Lowest score to content created by automated or generative AI tools. Yes, Google doesn’t want websites to publish content created with little to no effort, originality, and value for visitors. However, Google seems fine with continuing to push its own AI-generated content upon us all in the form of AI Overviews.
Just to be clear, this change actually happened in January when Google updated its Search Quality Rater Guidelines (here’s our story on that). However, at least a few people were unaware of this noteworthy change.
That’s why I dug into all the noteworthy changes from January, which included Google introducing generative AI to the guidelines, adding and expanding spam definitions, adding a new “filler” content category, and more. You can read all about it in Google quality raters now assess whether content is AI-generated.
Danny Goodwin,
Editorial Director
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