[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Seeing an HN ad for YC company that portend...
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Tell HN: Seeing an HN ad for YC company that portends AI-powered
blogspam
I just saw the following ad on HN. > Contentedge (YC W17) is
hiring to build AI content writing software for SEO From its
landing page there's the following sentence: > Instantly create
briefs or text that's modeled after high-ranking content and sounds
human-made. This kind of service seems specifically designed to
drown the Internet in blogspam, even more so than it already is,
and hence worries me. I know it was inevitable given the rise of
convincing AI text generation and sure if one company doesn't do it
another will (and no doubt there are already those that do), but
please Contentedge, reconsider if this is truly the product you
want to create for this world.
Author : dwohnitmok
Score : 15 points
Date : 2022-09-13 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
| ryanb wrote:
| Hey, founder of Contentedge here - you have it totally wrong. :)
|
| It seems like you equate SEO with blogspam, which is just false.
|
| We help businesses create more useful content and get it to the
| right people. Google is the gateway to the internet. I don't view
| it as gaming the system; we're trying to empower smaller
| businesses and writers to get found.
|
| Give it a try and see if it's just a spam machine (no credit card
| required) https://secure.contentedge.com/users/signup/free
| blep_ wrote:
| Blogspam is a subset of SEO, for sure.
|
| This comment does nothing to convince me that it isn't the
| subset you're targeting, because that last sentence sounds a
| lot like you're describing blogspam.
|
| (parent comment was edited after I wrote this, read "last
| sentence" as referring to the paragraph beginning with "We help
| businesses create more useful content and get it to the right
| people.")
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