Our AI content policy

Updated August 25, 2023

At One Generation, we see AI as a tool and an opportunity. But it’s one we should all approach carefully.

On one hand, AI writers can help companies scale their content production dramatically. In some cases, AI can improve the quality of life of creatives.

On the other, AI is not helpful for all types of content. And for many reasons, AI-generated content should never be simply “copied and pasted” onto a site without a human editor’s touch.

Any company that plans to use AI regularly for content creation should have guidelines in place for when and how to use it. This piece summarizes our own policies about AI.

The comments below apply specifically to written content, since we don’t yet offer design services to clients. We will update the guidelines if and when we expand our services.

For a more comprehensive commentary on AI, see AI in content marketing: objections and opportunities.

What we use AI for

With the above in mind, we need to understand that AI writers are a good fit for some types of content, but not all.

At One Generation, we have begun experimenting with AI to help us create:

  • How-to guides and tutorials
  • Informational and support-style content
  • Shorter, supportive copy, such as metadata (titles, descriptions) and social posts

We don’t simply copy and paste AI content without taking it through our editorial process. 

What we don’t use AI for

Although AI can help with more informational types of content, we haven’t yet found AI to be able to reliably generate other types of content.

This is especially relevant for our niche of purpose-driven businesses since they need more highly niched content than the average business.

AI is not ideal for:

  • Highly niched or expert-level content
  • Articles about personal experience or original research
  • Content about proprietary processes or terms a company has invented
  • Thought leadership content

We will continue experimenting with AI in these cases, but in many cases a human will need to write or heavily edit these more advanced types of content.

Our editorial process for AI content

All content we create goes through an editorial process, and this is even more true for AI-generated content.

Any time we use AI to generate content, we edit for the following:

  • Plagiarism and AI detection
  • Writing quality
  • Fact check
  • Brand and originality
  • Conversion optimization

These checks help ensure that each piece of content is ethically created, reads well, is appropriate for the brand, and will perform well in search and lead generation.

“Will you use AI for my project?”

The short answer is that if we think AI will help us get a client better results – yes, we will use it.

The longer answer is that it depends on the client’s existing body of content, their brand voice and guidelines, the type of content they need to create, and their marketing goals.

For instance, if a company mainly needs traffic for their site and doesn’t yet have any optimized how-to guides for their audience, we might want to create them — AI can probably help us do this.

If, on the other hand, a company already has high traffic and a large body of SEO content, we might focus more on thought leadership and sales enablement content, in which case AI may not be as relevant.

While the “how” is important, we first must understand “what” we’re trying to accomplish.

Questions? Let’s chat!

No doubt, we will evolve this policy as AI changes and we continue to discover the best use cases for AI.

If you’re a prospective or current client and have questions or concerns about our use of AI, we’d be happy to chat. Reach out us at hello@onegenerationseo.com.

If you’d like to talk about a potential project, you can book a call.