# Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine - The Verge

<https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562966/cnet-ai-written-stories-red-ventures-seo-marketing>

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## What Jamie wrote

Search engines like Google are threatened by other search companies using AI to index and find content better, but maybe even more concerning is the coming deluge of AI generated synthetic text that is going to flood the web and make it incredibly difficult to search and find anything. Also, I’m old enough to remember when CNET was a great site… rubbish now.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT240: Weekly Thing #240 / Shapes, Tags, Ubiquity](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/240/), Notable

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