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• aim to create helpful, problem-solving content, and Google will be largely ambivalent about how it’s created. As they summarize:
• Pair a vast uptick in AI-fueled content creation with a growing skepticism on the legitimacy of online content, and the returns of search could drop even further (what we’ve dubbed the “search singularity”).
• that your content will be functional but forgettable.
• It relies upon effective distribution. It needs to go further than simply meeting the basic expectations of the reader: it needs to leave a lasting impression, or solve a problem, or entertain.
• Rely too much on generative AI and too little on skilled experience, and you risk creating a kind of soulless imitation of good content, a lurching zombie with the appearance of “content marketing” but none of its useful qualities.