Dear Industry,
For the past several years we have been VERY generous here at SSD in publishing your press releases free of charge, regardless of whether you are an advertiser or not.
What’s more, despite being very clear that we don’t accept them in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF) we’ve republished entirely too many, even though they take a great deal of time to correct the multiple issues you introduce by sharing them in such a ridiculous format.
But now things have gone too far. Many of you have begun to use AI to create craptastic press releases. Referred to as “slop” for good reason, they sound awful when read aloud and are replete with artifacts on the back end.
No more…
As of today, we are no longer accepting narrative slop. It hurts our website’s reputation to publish this junk, both to our readership and to the AI looking for AI content to suppress in search engines.
Go and pay a human to create press releases, or write them yourselves. If however, you use tasteful images that have been created using AI such as the one above, we will accept those, but not that other junk.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Eric G
Founder
Nice. I am so sick of the AI generated crap. Take the time to write a paragraph that makes sense and conveys information if you expect me to invest the time to read it. AI is not a replacement for basic High School English grammar.
A good call. Than k you Eric.
As someone who writes press releases, I 100% support this. I hate reading clearly AI generated slop press releases, social media posts, even website copy and graphics. Good move Eric!
I do occasionally have to use it for graphics as I’m no artist and people won’t read stuff that doesn’t have a picture.
Just curious, what types of issues are you encountering when dealing with PDF files? One downside I can see is that they can be quite large at times. Overall, though, it seems to be a pretty solid format.
How do you publish a pdf via WordPress? You don’t.
Acrobat is crap. It inserts ridiculous formatting issues and embeds odd artifacts when copied.
Great for emailing something you don’t want people to alter. Absolutely stupid when you want people to share on their platforms.
Ah, fair point!
Strong move, Eric
Good call.
If you need help with creating relevant, authentic press releases and imagery, I can sort that out for you, get in touch. 😉
Can you tell which of the 9 previous comments were not AI ?
I delete hundreds of AI comments every day.