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๐คก The Mediavine Hypocrisy
to AI or not to AI
For a while now, Iโve been watching with interest how Mediavine is โhandlingโ AI content.
And by โhandling,โ I mean accusing site owners of AI content and de-monetizing them with no recourseโฆand being on a crusade to stop AI sites of getting monetized anywhere.
And thatโs why Iโve been checking a site that was listed for sale last week and then quietly removed from the brokerage site.
More on that in a moment.
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If youโre selling a site that uses chatGPT to write the content, and youโre monetized on a platform that has gone on a full angry-mob-with-pitchforks-crusade against AI content, maybe donโt list your site for sale with a brokerage that makes all your shit public.
And especially donโt do that if youโre on Mediavine Pro, and your site has a listing price of almost a million dollars.
This should be common sense, right?
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I should take a moment to point out that I am all for AI content that it is good. And I think itโs despicable that Mediavine is going after site owners who use AI content and/or images on their site.
That being said, I do think all the people Mediavine has removed from monetization for using AI would like to have a word with this site ownerโฆ..who is STILL running Mediavine ads on the site.
So, this site - it went out in a standalone email from Motion Invest 7 days ago and it looked like this -
Donโt bother looking for it, cause they took the listing down and now itโs a 404 page.
They also tweeted about the new listing, which is still there.
The Keywordian guy did a break down of the site where he pulled a screenshot from the seller questions where the seller said content came from chatGPT. (he deleted the thread)
If I had a site on Mediavine that had gotten removed for AI usage, then I think Iโd be pretty pissed off right now.
Cause it seems like the people on Mediavine Pro are not getting the same rules applied as everyone else.
Coming upโฆ
Upcoming topics: more tips and ideas on Etsy and KDP, how itโs going with my chatGPT fiction ebook and the AI music thingie, and growing an ecomm site.
If you have a topic you want covered just reply and let me know.
Stay awesome,
Shawna
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