Shallow Content refers to content on the internet that is primarily intended to satisfy [[SEO]] keywords.
Shallow Content is often produced by [[Content Farm|Content Farms]] (i.e. keyboard sweatshops), though with the recent accessibility of [[Large Language Model|Large Language Models]], more and more Shallow Content on the internet is AI-generated.
You can usually identify Shallow Content on a website by looking for:
- Repetitive use of the same words or phrases (SEO stuffing)
- A lot of words that say nothing at all
- Contradictory information between one paragraph and the next
- Any usage of the phrase "as a language model"