Dear Industry,
We’ve been very generous in posting relevant press releases submitted by our industry. We don’t charge for the service and are generally pretty quick to get them posted. More and more of these are written by a Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence.
We’ve even posted PRs written in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) even though they are a serious PITA to transfer over to WordPress (our platform).
For those of you who don’t know, ChatGPT (and perhaps others) have begun to insert syntax errors into the documents they produce which are only detectable once copied and pasted from their native workspaces.
In the future, if we detect AI derived press releases, we aren’t going to post them. Like press releases submitted in PDF format, they require a lot of work to make them presentable in the website.
You can take the time to edit them yourselves before you submit them we will happily continue to support your efforts, but we aren’t going to do the dirty work for you.
The SSD Team


Thank you, until people take a stand the industry will continue to get more and more dumbed down. AI answers firearm questions based on what it scours, and when it hits certain sites, it has no idea the gene pool is shallow. Customers and clients deserve better.
Thanks SSD for taking the high road on this issue.
Concur
Completely agree! No AI slop please industry folks.