My company's website got flagged by an AI content detector last week

We run a small roofing business in Cleveland, nothing fancy, just a simple site with our services and some photos. Last Tuesday I get an email saying our Google listing was flagged for 'low quality content' and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out a competitor or someone reported us and an automated bot reviewed our site and decided we sounded like AI wrote it. I had to rewrite all our pages myself to sound more like a real person talking about shingles and flashing. Has anyone else had their legitimate small business site get dinged by these detection algorithms?

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the_wendy14d ago

Oh man, that exact thing happened to my buddy who runs a plumbing company. He had to go through and add in some slang and local stuff like "Cleveland winters are brutal on gutters" to make it pass. Try throwing in a few typos on purpose too, sounds crazy but it works.

sean_green4414d ago

Whoa, are we really at the point where AI is flagging a plumbing ad for not mentioning Cleveland winters? That feels like a stretch to me. I mean, @the_wendy, I get that your buddy had to do it, but it sounds like a lot of extra work for something that probably wouldn't even get flagged. I'd bet most of these detectors are pretty dumb and just look for basic patterns, not stuff like regional slang. Feels like overthinking it a bit, honestly.

gavin46914d ago

Man, if the robots are gonna start judging our gutter ads I'm in real trouble since I can barely spell "plumbing" right on the first try. Guess I'll just let the AI deal with my typos for me.