This document discusses artificial intelligence (AI) and its growing role in content creation. It provides examples of how AI systems like GPT-3 can be used to generate blog introductions, company bios, and home pages. However, AI is limited in its ability to check facts, demonstrate originality or creativity, and understand tone of voice and style. Google has also announced updates cracking down on unoriginal content. Therefore, content writers may need to focus more on editing AI-generated content, writing style guides, and storytelling with first-hand expertise to prove the value of human work.
48. THE HELPFUL CONTENT UPDATE
Google is cracking down on content
that isn’t unique…
49. “If you search for information about a new
movie, you might have previously
encountered articles that aggregated
reviews from other sites without adding
perspectives beyond what’s available
elsewhere on the web. This isn’t very
helpful if you’re expecting to read
something new. With this update, you’ll see
more results with unique information, so
you’re more likely to read something you
haven’t seen before.”
50. WHAT WE KNOW…
The update is
site-wide.
Sites with lots of
AI content could
be penalised!
61. 61
WE MAY WRITE
MORE TONE
OF VOICE
GUIDELINES
WE MAY USE IT MORE
TO COME UP WITH
IDEAS BASED ON
EXISTING DATA
62. 62
WE MAY WRITE
MORE TONE
OF VOICE
GUIDELINES
WE MAY
HAVE TO
PROVE
OUR
WORTH…
…which is
why we must
never stop
learning.
63. USEFUL
RESOURCES
•Hemingway App makes
sure your content isn’t
overly wordy
•Clearscope or Frase can
help with themes
•100 Ways to Improve
Your Writing by Gary
Provost
•This Is Why You Suck at
Writing by Katie Lingo
65. ADD A FOOTER 65
DO:
Check your facts
Cite your sources
Stick to Google Quality
Guidelines
Use tools to help you…
66. ADD A FOOTER 66
DON’T:
Ask and not answer
qs
Use one link only
Churn out loads of AI sh*te
Ignore the benefits of AI
Forget the past!
67. Keep in touch 😘
@katielingoyork
www.katielingo.co.uk
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Because when we were at the last BSEO, people kept asking us, but don’t you just use AI to generate content?
Who remembers the creepy Dall-E pictures? It’s being talked about…a lot. We have the bad, the long, the good…and more and more and more and more.
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/will-ai-replace-writers
Works off the inputs that humans give it
First documented case in 1953 with a rule-based love letter generator
Various other cases through the 70s and 80s taking the ‘Turing Test’
Then GPT3 came along and changed everything!
ACTUALLY NOT VERY ARTIFICIAL AT ALL – ALL BASED ON HUMAN INPUTS, JUST AS YOUR WATCH LEARNS YOUR SLEEPING PATTERNS ETC. IT’S CALLED ‘DEEP LEARNING’.
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https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/will-ai-replace-writers
Works off the inputs that humans give it
First documented case in 1953 with a rule-based love letter generator
Various other cases through the 70s and 80s taking the ‘Turing Test’
Then GPT3 came along and changed everything!
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CHANGE IMAGE. LAUNCHED BY OPEN AI IN 2020, FOUNDED BY ELON MUSK BUT LARGELY FUNDED BY MICROSOFT WHO PAID FOR THE LICENCE. (CHECK THIS) USES DEEP LEARNING TO DRAW FROM HUGE DATASETS.
CHANGED PICTURE TO PILE OF BOOKS. Trained on English language Wikipedia and millions of books
Parameters – nodes have weighting. If I say who is Winston Churchill – I have two nodes. One says carrot, one says WW2. WW2 will be used in 5% of cases, so it’s more heavily weighted than carrots. So the next logical decision would be to go for the WW2 parameter, so it helps to predict what the next node is based on this weight. With 175 billion parameters, we have a far more finely tuned data set.
Trained on English language Wikipedia and millions of books
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We signed up to Jasper (and then got charged £400 for the privilege because they had a 5-day, not 7-day trial, the bastards). We were quite impressed with the range of options, and this was only the lower-tier package.
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/will-ai-replace-writers
Works off the inputs that humans give it
First documented case in 1953 with a rule-based love letter generator
Various other cases through the 70s and 80s taking the ‘Turing Test’
Then GPT3 came along and changed everything!
INITIALLY QUITE IMPRESSED
INITIALLY QUITE IMPRESSED
INITIALLY QUITE IMPRESSED
Now I’ll admit I went into this slightly pig-headedly and at times didn’t take it seriously. So I inputted sex tips for virgins, made the audience teenage boys, and asked the tone of voice to be friendly. The result? Ouch. ‘Keep reading for more information.’ ‘In this blog post, we’ll discuss some tips for virgins’ – spot the keyword stuff! Pretty cringey and hardly indicative of the tone we want to take.
On a side note, here is one of the first organic results – and we can see here it’s a different kettle of fish. Definitely written by a human.
OK, I’ll admit I was being a bit shitty once again here. We could look at all the assumptions this has made based on other ice cream sites. Fake news! So we would have to spend the time fact-checking it with a human.
OK, I’ll admit I was being a bit shitty once again here. We could look at all the assumptions this has made based on other ice cream sites. Fake news! So we would have to spend the time fact-checking it with a human.
OK, I’ll admit I was being a bit shitty once again here. We could look at all the assumptions this has made based on other ice cream sites. Fake news! So we would have to spend the time fact-checking it with a human.
OK, I’ll admit I was being a bit shitty once again here. We could look at all the assumptions this has made based on other ice cream sites. Fake news! So we would have to spend the time fact-checking it with a human.
This is the classic case of a machine misunderstanding the brief, basically failing the Turing ‘can it think’ test. But in seriousness, when we have it more information, it didn’t do a half bad job. Sure, it’s not got my tone of voice, and it’s very me me me, but it’s a starting point.
Alright alright. So I gave it more information. I told it we are trained journalists and content marketers. I told it we don’t do video. I told it we don’t charge by the word and we are not cheap. You can see the results are much more inspiring. Still a little bit me me me for my tone of voice, and certainly breaking the first rule of copywriting, but far closer to the mark.
Grammarly is the bane of many writers’ lives and only works based on very prescriptive rules of Grammar – so I would use it as a complementary tool rather than a catch-all tool.
Good for spotting typos
Very often gets basic things wrong like “years’ experience”
Best to use for the first round of edits to spot the real clangers
Writer’s block is very real and sometimes it can be difficult to come up with content ideas, particularly if yours is a very dry industry.
A SPRINGBOARD FOR CREATING BRIEFS.
Tools like Clearscope tell us what content ranks
Jasper.ai has a ‘blog post topic ideas’ tool
We can feed these into meetings with humans!
Writing notes live during an interview is very labour intensive. Doing it with shorthand is even harder – ask any journalist! Otter.ai
Otter.ai transcribes meetings in real time
It can identify who is speaking
Not infallible but a huge timesaver!
There’s always a market for it…
Some may argue that high-volume product descriptions can be automated…
Others want churn and burn content that may rank quickly
But we should proceed with caution…
Straight from the horse’s mouth
Ais cannot interview people
Ais can only produce content based on what’s already out there – garbage in, garbage out
This could cause big trouble…
Another example from Dan Callis – this cautionary tale about fact-checking
Otter.ai transcribes meetings in real time
It can identify who is speaking
Not infallible but a huge timesaver!
We can’t fuck about when it comes to health or general YMYL content – so if source zero is bad, we will continue spreading the same crap.
The 2020 Reuters Digital News Report revealed that 37% of us felt we were given “misleading” information about COVID-19
Anyone remember when everyone was resigning from parliament? Or more recently with the Queen?
AI content needs to draw on an original published source, so it’s essentially static
This means we would need humans to intervene for things like live blogging or tweeting
Huge content opportunities being missed without human intervention – politics, Eurovision, anything!
It’s a machine, not you. To some degree, you can tell AI engines what tone of voice to use, as seen before. But we saw how they got that wrong with “bring the funny”. They won’t know that you spell ecommerce X way. They can help you come up with ideas but they won’t add their personal flair to the writing, working in cultural references. And yes, it sounds a bit wanky, but they don’t have that storytelling experience.
Other than the fake news and potential spread of misinformation, we have the added human bias of sexism and racism to name but two.
AI is affected by human bias.
Word embeddings based on Google News saw gender stereotypes including “man is to doctor” and “woman is to nurse” or “man is to computer programmer” and “woman is to homemaker”
LinkedIn search was revealed to auto-suggest men’s names over women’s
A Twitter bot studying human conversation started spouting anti-Semitic hate speech
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05707-8
https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2016/hash/a486cd07e4ac3d270571622f4f316ec5-Abstract.html
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/how-linkedins-search-engine-may-reflect-a-bias/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/24/tay-microsofts-ai-chatbot-gets-a-crash-course-in-racism-from-twitter
https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/wllo57/bing_instantly_detects_gpt3_now/
Microsoft bought the rights to OpenAI
A very enlightening conversation with Danny Richman…
On a Reddit thread, a user described how they bought a web domain and published entirely OpenAI content
The site was indexed by Bing initially but then pulled for spam content
Bing is owned by Microsoft, which invested in OpenAI – is Microsoft trained to recognise it somehow?
Danny Richman also tells me it’s not designed for long-form content. So I did a test myself. I ran one of my blog posts through Clearscope – I assure you it was the first one in my archives when I searched “how to” and then I used Jasper’s introduction, paragraph and conclusion generator. I ran them both through Clearscope and mine came out with a C, while the AI came out with an F. It lacked a lot of the basic themes.
Danny Richman also tells me it’s not designed for long-form content. So I did a test myself. I ran one of my blog posts through Clearscope – I assure you it was the first one in my archives when I searched “how to” and then I used Jasper’s introduction, paragraph and conclusion generator. I ran them both through Clearscope and mine came out with a C, while the AI came out with an F. It lacked a lot of the basic themes.
So, what inspired this talk?
AI inherently isn’t unique because it derives from something else.
https://searchengineland.com/googles-new-helpful-content-update-targets-sites-creating-content-for-search-engines-first-387237
Some people are saying it’s the next Panda and could revolutionise the way we approach SEO.
It needs first-hand expertise, such as having used a service. Hello storytelling!
Content should be for humans, not just to attract search engines
This means it can’t be irrelevant just because it’s trending
https://searchengineland.com/googles-new-helpful-content-update-targets-sites-creating-content-for-search-engines-first-387237
Some people are saying it’s the next Panda and could revolutionise the way we approach SEO.
It needs first-hand expertise, such as having used a service. Hello storytelling!
Content should be for humans, not just to attract search engines
This means it can’t be irrelevant just because it’s trending
https://searchengineland.com/googles-new-helpful-content-update-targets-sites-creating-content-for-search-engines-first-387237
Some people are saying it’s the next Panda and could revolutionise the way we approach SEO.
It needs first-hand expertise, such as having used a service. Hello storytelling! Product reviews
Content should be for humans, not just to attract search engines
This means it can’t be irrelevant just because it’s trending
https://searchengineland.com/googles-new-helpful-content-update-targets-sites-creating-content-for-search-engines-first-387237
Some people are saying it’s the next Panda and could revolutionise the way we approach SEO.
It needs first-hand expertise, such as having used a service. Hello storytelling!
Content should be for humans, not just to attract search engines
This means it can’t be irrelevant just because it’s trending
We’ve already seen so many updates from Google trying to determine what constitutes quality – expertise, authority and trust. But as ever, black hat SEO techniques will work in the short term but Google will eventually find a way of figuring things out. But then we have seen AI help us in other ways.
We’ve already seen how AI is becoming an everyday part of our lives, so it would be naïve to think that dependence on AI content isn’t going to grow.
Mat Bennett is using AI as a research tool. Danny Richman mentioned how artists are saying they’re not being replaced but instead they’re using these tools to their advantage. We could use it as a helping hand and be open to change, but remember that humans will always be better.
Mat Bennett is using AI as a research tool. Danny Richman mentioned how artists are saying they’re not being replaced but instead they’re using these tools to their advantage. We could use it as a helping hand and be open to change, but remember that humans will always be better.
Mat Bennett is using AI as a research tool. Danny Richman mentioned how artists are saying they’re not being replaced but instead they’re using these tools to their advantage. We could use it as a helping hand and be open to change, but remember that humans will always be better.
Mat Bennett is using AI as a research tool. Danny Richman mentioned how artists are saying they’re not being replaced but instead they’re using these tools to their advantage. We could use it as a helping hand and be open to change, but remember that humans will always be better.
Hemingway is good for making sure content is original, not hard to understand. Clearscope is sort of AI in that it scours the internet for data to come up with themes. Gary Provost is great and offers rhythm guidance for tone. My blog has lots of tips on how to finesse your writing including tips, powerful words and tech to use.
Whether you’re using ai or not, check facts using snopes, official records such as yougov, ons. Cite your sources for EAT. Remember the Google update – needs to be unique. Use spell checkers and things like Clearscope to improve or some up with ideas
Do articles like “when is the stranger things new series released?” but not answer the question. Long-form articles with only one link, Google will smell a rat – James Welch at Embryo produced a great guide on this. Google will eventually penalise AI content as it’s a site-wide update, so don’t churn out loads of crap. Recognise that AI will make a difference so evolve with it. And remember, Google updates will always get you in the end! Don’t forget!
James Welch at Embryo