The word-of-mouth postings were ‘probably’ generated by LLM, and a review of the actual postings shows that a number of incorrect word-of-mouth postings have been made (and there are discrepancies when checked locally).
What does Google think of such AI-generated word-of-mouth and how should it deal with such posts if it finds them?
In terms of local guides, I wonder whether a local guide’s account would be suspended if it was an illegal means of gaining points.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention here @KOBAYASHI_Jun
@MortenCopenhagen It seems our fear is going to be real sooner than our expectations! I saw such robotic contributions for edits and also copying content for reviews and photos, but hadn’t seen a review suspicious to be written by AI before.
As you mentioned, those reviews are “probably” made via AI. But they also are probably not. They could also be made by human beings directly, though just with wrong info included. Under such circumstances, how is Google justified to take action against them?
And by the way, at current moment Google isn’t even able to identify and take action against totally plagiarized reviews (reviews that copy every word of other reviews of the same locations). Not to mention such situation with only “probable” cases.
I also found a guy who is using AI to add reviews. Although, since we have no perfect accurate AI photo generator for POIs, he just copies photos from the web like other spammers!