The existence of this technology is bad for the world; the content that's created is a form of pollution. On the other hand, it's a pretty impressive demonstration of technical ability. I hope this project fails quickly, so that you can move onto a different, more prosocial one.
Counter-take. Since the SEO content garbage is currently spewed by hordes of content writers making little money, a successful AI can help them find a higher calling.
maybe this is actually a good thing if it makes junky SEO articles even more ubiquitous than they already are. it will force search engines to adapt and filter out this kind of noise, increasing quality in the long term.
Wow quite amazing. I am thoroughly impressed with the quality. It seems real. I wonder, how do you think you are benefiting society with this technology?
Search engine algorithms may rank this kind of content highly. If someone disagrees, then their disagreement is with the search engine, not the content creator.
One important job of a search engine is to automatically cut through the "pollution." If it doesn't do that well, then ... it's not such a good search engine.
Hey everyone, I'm building https://sflow.io and part of that includes generating SEO articles to automate the current slow processes of creating (quite) repetitive media (think: "Best Phone to Buy in March of 2020" type of articles).
> I'm building https://sflow.io and part of that includes generating SEO articles
Honest question, not trying to be rude, but how do you sleep at night knowing that you're actively making the web^H^H^Hworld worse? I assume you must, because you have a super handwavy "ethics" section on your site that says ~"we'll look into it". Do you have a vision of the world where your SEO articles provide net positive value to the public? Or is this just for shits and giggles, consequences be damned?
[edited: you're right. this doesn't just harm the web]
In places like India I know that bribery and misinformation is more widespread than anyone could ever imagine.
Instead of a writer writing a clickbait article / low quality SEO (written by someone off-shore) article in 5 minutes, they could generate an article with our AI (provided they give us quotes, context, etc.) within that same 5 minutes. The difference is that we can iterate on our models and integrate our cross referencing fact-checking algorithms to ensure we generate meaningful articles.
> In places like India I know that bribery and misinformation is more widespread than anyone could ever imagine.
> Instead of a writer writing a clickbait article / low quality SEO (written by someone off-shore) article in 5 minutes, they could generate an article with our AI
So you acknowledge that there is something harming the world, and you want to make that harm even easier to do. And if you can profit from it, so much the better. Did I get that right?
Bribery and misinformation is harming the world. We allow you to have that same pace of writing, but we generate meaningful articles via our cross-referencing models.
Otherwise people would write whatever comes to their mind: clickbait/misinformation without proper cross referencing/fact checking.
I am very disappointed that another human being would pitch SEO spam, and automated SEO spam to boot, as something positive when we've seen for years how it rapidly and unequivocally destroys everything it touches. It is spam. It is pollution.
> Bribery and misinformation is harming the world.
Spam is harming the world, factful or otherwise.
> but we generate meaningful articles
It sure sounds like you generate SEO spam. You even advertise that you generate SEO spam. Your Show HN title is even "AI Generated SEO Spam".
> Otherwise people would write whatever comes to their mind: clickbait
SEO articles are literally scammy clickbait. Therefore, you generate scammy clickbait. "Fact checking" is orthogonal when your product is SEO spam.
I hope projects like http://gltr.io/ can eliminate this type of content from search results, or at least give me a browser-based alert when I encounter it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html