💯 Undetectable AI Content?
Does last week's Content at Scale update now make AI content undetectable? Plus spending money on a Cockpunch.
Hey there 👋,
In this week’s ALTS by Flippa newsletter I discuss:
Has AI content finally become undetectable?
Implications of ChatGPT on Google and SEO
A new 7 figure domain sale
A one-word domain aftermarket tool
Flippa Featured Domains
Getting a Zenchest and a Cockpunch NFT
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Cheers!
#contentsites
Using AI writing software to rank content sites has become the biggest topic in the website investing space.
But Google is (apparently) getting better at detecting and penalizing AI-generated content. In fact, it stated last week that they have algorithms to detect AI plagiarized content and will "demote site scraping content from other sites."
In last week’s newsletter, I mentioned the new AI detector Originality.AI that can now be used when doing due diligence on content quality on website listings.
It was really good at spotting content generated by Jasper as well as Rytr, and I’ve since tested on outputs by Writesonic which came up at 90-100% AI.
But what I was waiting for was Content at Scale (CAS) ’s big AI update that has now gone live.
First up, I tested an original output generated back in September (what seems like a year ago in the exponential world of AI) - it scored 97% AI.
I rewrote the post this week with the new AI, and the output scored 100% original!
I’ve tested a few more from CAS on Originality and they are all in the range of 80%-100% original. Let’s see if this lasts, I feel it’s a bit of a cat and mouse game!
Justin McGill the founder of CAS states in the update email why not being able to detect is huge:
It is currently the only AI writing solution on the market that has this capability.
Why is this such a big deal? It means you are protected against future potential Google updates that try to punish sites with AI generated content. It is the risk you run using any other AI writing solution.
We are able to bypass this through the use of multiple finely-tuned AI engines, natural language processing and semantic analysis algorithms, and more to produce the content we produce.
The CAS update now generates much longer content, with posts now averaging over 2,500 words, with better formatting and FAQs. At this stage, I’m just publishing the output with no edits straight on my AI test sites.
And Content at Scale have also created their own free AI Content Detection tool which you can test out on your own content.
Travis Jamison put out an amazing newsletter about how people have been using ChatGPT since its launch last week. It’s being used to write code, replace lawyers, write recipes and plan PR campaigns.
The interface is potentially a threat to Google search, which could have a big impact on content sites in the future.
But for now, SEOs are excited and using this new tech to automate previously manual tasks or replace existing software tools. There is a great twitter thread by Joe Davis on how he’s using ChatGPT for keyword clustering:
And I put out a post pulling together the top 20 ways to generate upside after a content site acquisition, which is being received well:
#domains
In domain news, there’s just been another 7 figure domain sale recorded for ballet.com - the 8th biggest year to date:
And Steven from OneWord.Domains has launched an aftermarket section of his tool:
You can currently track one-word domains that are dropping at auction on Namecheap, with Godaddy and Park.io coming soon.
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#nfts
I just burned my ZenAcademy Genesis ERC-1155 NFT I bought for 0.033ETH at the start of this year, for a ZenChest ERC-721 that’s currently worth 0.42ETH - a welcome ten-bagger, but I only had one.
Inside the chest will be my ZenAcademy PFP which I can summon in Q1 2023.
Moving from ERC 1155 to the more standard 721 is a trend by NFT collections to build more value for holders by offering unique NFTs in the form of a PFP. It’s something that The Nifty Portal will be doing next year. And this time I have 3 of them rather than just 1!
But the main NFT news this week, for me and Crypto Twitter, is all about Tim Ferriss’ Cockpunch project.
In a previous newsletter I said that I wasn’t going to mint a project called Cockpunch, and that I pulled my ETH out of the allowlist competition!
Well, I still managed to win an allowlist spot somehow which made me actually research the project and found out that he has put an incredible amount of thinking, skill and joy into this fantasy world he’s creating:
In the interview, Kevin Rose (from Moonbirds) asked Tim how he is planning on funding the project in the future, seeing as all primary sales are going to his Saisei Foundation and that the future of NFT royalties is in question:
I don’t plan on funding these things in the future
This is super refreshing as it removes founder/execution risk and makes it even more about the community.
Then during a discussion on royalties Tim divulges that:
All in, by the time this project is launched and up and running, I’ll probably have spent the majority of after tax income that I’ve made from all of my books combined in the last year.
I’ve been a fan of Tim Ferriss since I bought/read the Four Hour Work Week back in like 2011. I just thought he’d lost his mind with the name, but now it makes total sense.
The floor price is already sitting at 1.8ETH, so that’s 6x from the mint price with over 500 still left to mint:
The trader in me wants to watch this floor and sell pre-reveal. That may well be the greatest ROI play, at least in the short term. And I may end up doing this.
But I am super curious about what character I will be getting so may just as likely hold through reveal this Friday.
Either way, I’m excited for this project!
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Hey there 👋,
Great newsletter as always, Richard!
Loved the deep dive on AI content and the new Content at Scale update — that cat-and-mouse game with Google is getting intense. Also, the 7-figure ballet.com sale is wild.
Quick note on the one-word domain section: if you're hunting for ultra-premium single-word domains, check out www.oneworddomain.ai — it’s one of the best tools right now to track what’s still available in English (only 2393 one-word .com domains left… and most are already over $20k).
Super useful aftermarket tab too!
Keep up the great work 🔥
Cheers,
Sandy