Hacker News with Generative AI: Content Quality

Google Quality Raters Guidelines Warns of Significant Scrolling on Recipe Blogs (seroundtable.com)
Another update in the revised Google Quality Raters Guidelines that was updated on January 23rd was that they added a section for recipe sites and said that requiring "significant scrolling" or making it hard to find the jump to recipe button is not a good thing.
SEO, Recipe Blogs, Google Search, Content Quality, User Experience
6 points by vincent_s 15 days ago | 0 comments
Is This How Reddit Ends? (theatlantic.com)
The internet is growing more hostile to humans. Google results are stuffed with search-optimized spam, unhelpful advertisements, and AI slop. Amazon has become littered with undifferentiated junk. The state of social media, meanwhile—fractured, disorienting, and prone to boosting all manner of misinformation—can be succinctly described as a cesspool.
Social Media, Internet, Technology, AI, Content Quality
14 points by alpha_squared 23 days ago | 2 comments
Streaming subscription fees have been rising while content quality is dropping (arstechnica.com)
Subscription fees for video streaming services have been on a steady incline. But despite subscribers paying more, surveys suggest that viewers are becoming less satisfied with what's available to watch.
Streaming Services, Content Quality, Consumer Trends
26 points by pseudolus 122 days ago | 8 comments
Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup (wikipedia.org)
Welcome to WikiProject AI Cleanup—a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list.
Wikipedia, Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration, Content Quality, Information Quality
7 points by croes 142 days ago | 0 comments
AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality (theregister.com)
AI, Search Engines, Spam, Content Quality
26 points by cebert 313 days ago | 21 comments