The updated Google Search Quality Raters guidelines last week and added an example of what it considers the “lowest quality pages.” In section 4.7 it states the only mention of using AI and writes, “The website terms of use states that “some articles” are generated by artificial intelligence and may have errors or be out of date; there is no indication to which pages this statement applies. The information in this article is not trustworthy and is Lowest E-E-A-T.”

It goes on to explain:

Here is a screenshot:

This was spotted first by Natzir who wrote on X, “Take a look at what Google has just included in the new Search Quality Rater Guidelines.”

I believe this is the only outright mention of using AI generated content? I can be wrong, but I did a quick scan of the document and did not find other mentions.

Natzir posted more:

This does sound like something algorithms can pick up on pretty quickly. Not that what Google writes in the Search Quality Raters guidelines are built into Google’s ranking algorithms – just saying.

So just keep this in mind.

Forum discussion at X.