Chrome generates AI content

[Dani]

Apparently a new feature in Google Chrome is to automatically generate AI content. All I need to do is start typing a sentence or two here in this textbox, right click, select "Help Me Write", choose if I want it to be short-form or long-form text, be formal or casual in tone, and let Chrome work its magic ...

For those of you who know my stance on ChatGPT when it comes to posts on DaniWeb, you know I don't see this as a good thing. I feel as if it's just going to be the start of AI-generated drivel overshadowing high-quality content written by industry experts.

[rproffitt]

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-search-with-a-new-ai-powered-microsoft-bing-and-edge-your-copilot-for-the-web/

I recall seeing this on Bing and Edge as well.

It shouldn't be long till Apple turns it on in Safari.

Let me share a tip about search today. Use “before:2023" at the beginning of your search string. You get a completely different set of results which won't include AI generated content.

[Dani]

Meanwhile, in other news, Google's huge March algorithm update, that is still going out, is focused hard and heavy on cutting out all AI-generated content from the search results. So, on one hand, you have Google making it super easy to churn out AI-generated content on the web, and on the other hand, you have Google churning their wheels trying to figure out efficient ways to cut out all AI-generated content on the web.

[Johannes C.]

For users who are tired of seeing AI-generated content on Google, a simple fix is to write "before:2023" in front of search queries. Gets rid of all the "let's-delve-into-the-rich-tapestry..." BS.

[Chris Hüneke]

I feel as if it's just going to be the start of AI-generated drivel overshadowing high-quality content written by industry experts.

I deeply understand your worries - and without a doubt: it's not only realistic, in fact, it's already happening.

but...

Who knows?!

You seem to be judging this as something "bad" - did you ever question this?

good or bad don't really exist, they're subjective, as what's good for me, is not neccessarily good for me.

At the same level as i see a rise in the amount of generic bs content, i kind of equally see a transformation in the people's minds.

Real, authentic content is getting valued more and more. People seem to start building a more sensitive conciousness for sensing computer-generated content, which makes organic, human conntent way more attractive.

Im not just talking fantasies - this is backed up by latest studiies. Neil Patel for example just published stats about a case study showing, that back in the days hi-fi content performed better than lo-fi content - this flipped dramatically over the last few years (lmk if you like some links to this).

What i am trying to say is,... you don't know.

Yea, you know what "is", because you see.

But you can't know the results yet, the outcome, what it leads to.

Sometimes the most beautiful flowers grow from the nastiest sh*t. (Lotus Flowers, for example)

Let me finish with a nice, old story..

The Chinese Farmer: A Tale of Luck and Misfortune
In a village in China, not too small but not too large, there lived a farmer—not poor, but not rich; not very old, but not young anymore—who owned a horse. Since he was the only farmer in the village with a horse, the villagers would say, “Oh, such a beautiful horse, how lucky he is!”

And the farmer would reply, “Who knows?!”

One day, on a perfectly ordinary day, for reasons unknown, the farmer’s horse broke out of its enclosure and ran away. The farmer saw it galloping away, but he couldn't catch it. That evening, the villagers stood by the fence of the now-empty enclosure, some grinning a bit with schadenfreude, saying, “Oh, the poor farmer, his only horse ran away. Now he has no horse, poor man!”

The farmer heard this and just murmured, “Who knows?!”

A few days later, people saw the beautiful horse in the farmer’s enclosure again, playing and frolicking with a wild mare that had followed it from the mountains. The neighbors, full of envy, said, “Oh, how lucky the farmer is!”

But the farmer simply said, “Who knows?!”

On a fine summer day, the farmer’s only son climbed onto the horse to ride it. Before long, half the village was watching him proudly riding the beautiful horse. “Ah, how fortunate he is!”

But suddenly, the horse got spooked, reared up, and the son—the farmer’s only son—fell off and broke his leg into many small pieces, up to the hip. The neighbors cried out, “Oh, the poor farmer, his only son! Will he ever walk properly again? Such bad luck!”

But the farmer just said, “Who knows?!”

Some time later, the entire village was startled awake at dawn by a wild clatter through the streets. The soldiers of the ruler came riding into the village, dragging all the young men and boys out of bed to take them to war. The farmer’s son couldn’t go. Many sat at home and said, “How lucky he is!”

But the farmer only murmured, “Who knows?!”

True knowledge starts, when we know, we know nothing at all.

Best Regards,

[Dani]

At the same level as i see a rise in the amount of generic bs content, i kind of equally see a transformation in the people's minds.

Real, authentic content is getting valued more and more. People seem to start building a more sensitive conciousness for sensing computer-generated content, which makes organic, human conntent way more attractive.

While it’s great that seeing crappy AI content makes people value human content even more, that isn’t really a silver lining for someone whose livelihood is an online forum that keeps getting a lot of that crappy AI content being posted to it. I’m spending nearly all my days deleting posts. :(

[Chris Hüneke]

I understand.

Maybe you can use the undetectable.ai API for automatically detecting and blocking AI Content?

Another good thing might be setting the priority for (mostly) ai generated pages 0.1 lower...

But tbh, UGC, even when created with AI is not that harmful to your site.

Stackoverflow, Quora, Github, Reddit, they're all full of it.

Don't know, if you're aware of it, but someone is trying to hurt your reputation:

https://www.copyscape.com/view.php?o=84437&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmapco-sl.org%2Fworm-replace-me-threat-encyclopedia%2F&t=1722950080&s=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.daniweb.com%2Fhardware-and-software%2Fmicrosoft-windows%2Fthreads%2F105921%2Frecovering-an-outlook-2007-address-book&w=16&i=4&r=4

https://www.copyscape.com/view.php?o=84437&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtopronounce.com%2Fjsu&t=1722950080&s=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.daniweb.com%2Fhardware-and-software%2Fmicrosoft-windows%2Fthreads%2F105921%2Frecovering-an-outlook-2007-address-book&w=19&i=2&r=4

this looks harmless, but can lead to way worse effects than it seems...

Just that specific phrase with that context - no link needed to be toxic.

[pallavi2501]

Google Chrome itself does not generate AI content directly; however, it supports various tools and extensions that can leverage AI to assist with content creation. Here’s a look at how AI content generation can be facilitated through Chrome:

Browser Extensions
Web-Based AI Tools
Integrated AI Features