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 and 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