Scaled Content Abuse
The policy added in 2024 that prohibits mass-producing pages with little original value, regardless of whether a model, a template, low-cost freelancers, or a combination produced them.
Analogy Mental model
The old rule banned machine-printed fake flyers. Someone argued that a hundred students copying them by hand was not machine printing, so the rule was rewritten: it is the flyering, not the printer, that gets punished.
In practice What you actually do
The boundary is editorial, not technical. Twenty articles written with assistance and then verified by a named expert, with your own data and images added, is legitimate. Five thousand generated question-and-answer pages published overnight is not, and passing an AI detector changes nothing about that.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Sites whose article counts multiplied into the thousands within months, with no branded demand and no real engagement, were removed wholesale in the 2024 updates. Volume without a reader is the signature being looked for.
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