Is Google actually penalizing AI content?

restlex said:

Been scaling up content production with AI on a few sites and getting paranoid after seeing "ranking tanked, pretty sure it's the AI content" threads pop up, but plenty of other people saying their AI-heavy sites are still ranking fine months later with zero issues. Feels like everyone's had a completely different experience and nobody actually knows which sites got hit for AI content specifically or what..
Is anyone actually seeing a real isolated ranking impact from this? Does running stuff through Originality.ai/Copyleaks/whatever actually correlate with what Google itself flags? Curious what people are doing differently on the sites that held up heavier humanizing/rewriting passes, mixing in more manually written sections or it is mostly random as anyone knows those tools doens't really work...

Click to expand...

restlex said:

Been scaling up content production with AI on a few sites and getting paranoid after seeing "ranking tanked, pretty sure it's the AI content" threads pop up, but plenty of other people saying their AI-heavy sites are still ranking fine months later with zero issues. Feels like everyone's had a completely different experience and nobody actually knows which sites got hit for AI content specifically or what..
Is anyone actually seeing a real isolated ranking impact from this? Does running stuff through Originality.ai/Copyleaks/whatever actually correlate with what Google itself flags? Curious what people are doing differently on the sites that held up heavier humanizing/rewriting passes, mixing in more manually written sections or it is mostly random as anyone knows those tools doens't really work...

Click to expand...