Do Social Platforms Penalize AI Content?
No platform penalizes a post for being AI-generated. Labels exist, ranking penalties don't. Here is the exchange we keep having with independents who heard otherwise — objection by objection.
No platform penalizes a post for being AI-generated. Labels exist, ranking penalties don't. Here is the exchange we keep having with independents who heard otherwise — objection by objection.
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Iris runs a physio practice alone in Lille. Six months on an AI system that drafts her week. The typing left; twenty minutes of review on Tuesday replaced it. Five checks, in sequence.
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An AI without a frame produces the statistical center of everything it has read. Competent, anonymous, interchangeable. The way out isn't a sharper adjective.