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RE terrible sources, the sources are chosen based on what Google identifies to be credible sources. I am aware that some of the sources Google chooses as the source of truth are not great though. I've not found a good way to filter them out.
Out of curiosity. Which source in particular stood out as low-quality?
As mentioned before, sales gen (which is the blog post you shared) and product are not going to match 1:1. You have to reach the audience at the points that you know they research and try to solve. That's not going to be a surprise to anyone who built and scaled products.
At the end of the day, my job is to sell to the ICP that I am targeting, and I know that their concern (based on user interviews) is that content will be detected as AI detected. I need to get them into the product first before I can educate them.
AIMD is very different from your typical article generators (like https://writesonic.com/, which good God I don't know why anyone would use, but they are doing good, so good for them) that is just spinning out LLM-written content. AIMD orchestrates a multi-step process of topic discovery, source research, content summary, fact validation, hypothesis generation, outline planning, and only then writing. Content generation is a tiny surface area of AIMD, for which I am the least excited. It is really meant to generate a data-rich starting point for writing a high-quality article, rather than produce something that's ready to post. That is also reflected in the product: the content score is based (among other variables) on the % of insights added by the editor VS generated.
Also, if you dig deeper into what AIMD does, AIMD was built to combat spam. The one-pager is a good starting point.
I am constantly on the look out for models/data sources that would give AIMD an advantage. I am sure others are too.
I found that to be incredibly impractical. I tried to do it for my project AIMD, but the cost and quality just made absolutely no sense even with the top models.
I am trying to not to lean on "clean" too much, as the the keyword is actually interlinking (or "internal contextual cross-linking" to be precise). But it is helluva long string of words to use in a name.
I have a use case that requires that I only surface search results that are articles (news, blog posts, etc) rather than anything else.
The best I've gotten to so far is doing queries such as inurl:blog