Can search engines detect AI content?
The AI tool explosion in the past year has dramatically impacted digital marketers, especially those in SEO.
Given content creation’s time-consuming and costly nature, marketers have turned to AI for assistance, yielding mixed results
Ethical issues notwithstanding, one question that repeatedly surfaces is, “Can search engines detect my AI content?”
The question is deemed particularly important because if the answer is “no,” it invalidates many other questions about whether and how AI should be used.
A long history of machine-generated content
While the frequency of machine-generated or -assisted content creation is unprecedented, it’s not entirely new and is not always negative.
Breaking stories first is imperative for news websites, and they have long utilized data from various sources, such as stock markets and seismometers, to speed up content creation.Â