A.I. vs Human; the base of the Problem

When you write an article on line,  A.I., artificial intelligence, (an algorithm developed by a techie) will ‘judge’  it.

Now, I can see a smile growing on your face, because what an A.I. thinks is ‘good’ and what a human considers ‘good’ are totally different.

In previous articles I mentioned ‘Crap Writers’.   For those who do not appreciate this is a term of ‘art’, let me elucidate.

A Crap Writer is a person who knows how to ‘play’ the A.I.   Recognising the use of ‘Keywords’ of ‘SEO’ (Search Engine Optimisation) terms which incite the Artificial Intelligence, they write not for a human, but for an algorithm.

Where an author would write;

“John F. Kennedy ran for President of the United States in 1960.  He was quite handsome and did well on the debates, because they were televised. One did not simply hear his voice, one could view his expression, the gleam in his eye, and his ease of smiling.”   for a human audience  a Crap writer would write;

“John F. Kennedy ran for President of the United States.  John F. Kennedy ran for President in 1960.   John F. Kennedy was handsome.   John F. Kennedy did well on the debates.   The debates that John F. Kennedy participated in were televised.   One did not simply hear the voice of John F. Kennedy.   On television one could see John F. Kennedy.  One could see the expression on the face of John F. Kennedy.   One could see the expression of the face of John F. Kennedy.   One could see the gleam in the eye of John F. Kennedy.   One could see how easy it was to smile for John F. Kennedy.”

The A.I., searching for John F. Kennedy would go to the Crap Writer’s article because of the over use of the Search Term; “John F. Kennedy.”

Now, clearly, the item written by the Crap Writer is not as enjoyable as that one written by an author for a human audience.

Many on line writers have adopted the repetitious use of a Search Term, because they want the hits.  Some bordering this kind of Crap Writing.   Others remain as they are, and suffer lack of hits.

This is why many articles written for an on line audience are tedious.   They are too long, too repetitious, and boring.  Many people will click on an item, and skim, not read, because it just goes on forever and should be condensed by half.

Good writers, the top authors, can say so much in one sentence.   But, if being judged by A.I. would fall to the bottom of the ‘search’.

Some years ago, a famous writer,  ‘tested’ this theory.   He wrote a brilliant piece of about 500 words and published it on one of those on line writing sites under another name.  He got very few hits, and when he tried to ‘network’ his item was attacked as a ‘self-spammer’.

After two weeks he deleted his item, published it Hard Copy and was lauded all over the place, and of course, made a good amount of real money.

The need to reassess, that is to judge an item based on a human audience, not a computer’s algorithm is necessary.