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AI-generated content floods search results, hindering contractor searches

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The proliferation of AI-generated content is making it increasingly difficult to find legitimate contractors online. Searches for services like "gutters city name" are yielding results filled with AI-generated "companies" that use repetitive and unnatural language, such as mentioning a specific city name excessively. While searches for "gutter installers near me" still show local businesses, the prevalence of AI-generated scams threatens to degrade the reliability of internet searches for services, potentially leading to a reliance on older methods like telephone books. AI

IMPACT AI-generated content is degrading search result quality, making it harder to find legitimate services online.

RANK_REASON User complaint about AI-generated content impacting search results, not a primary AI development.

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AI-generated content floods search results, hindering contractor searches

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Ai is making finding reputable contractors hard. Even when using Duck Duck Go. If I search for "gutters city name" almost every "company" is Ai generated garbag

    Ai is making finding reputable contractors hard. Even when using Duck Duck Go. If I search for "gutters city name" almost every "company" is Ai generated garbage. The city name mentioned over and over, in a way that no business would write because they don't just serve one medium…

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