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We're using these at where I work (large retail site) to help make filler text on generated articles. Think the summary blurb no one reads at the top. As for wh

We're using these at where I work (large retail site) to help make filler text on generated articles. Think the summary blurb no one reads at the top. As for why we're writing these articles (we have a paid team that writes them too), the answer is SEO. This is probably the only thing I've seen done with a text model in production usage. I'm not 100% sure what model they're using.

BonoboIO 4y ago
Content made for machines. Probably a billion dollar industry.
- jquery 4y ago
  Made by machines, for machines. It’s poetic.
  - blippage 4y ago
    There's a line in one of Douglas Adams' books where he says something along the lines that things like VCRs were invented to watch TV programs so that you don't have to. Who would have thought that one man's joke would become a reality?
- fab1an 4y ago
  Content made for machines serving humans made by machines pretending to be human
tobr 4y ago
Sorry but every part of that sounds so terrible.
- MivLives 4y ago
  Yeah I'm not a huge fan of it. I'll never forget the look in our UX person's eyes when she realized that our team doesn't exist to make customer's experience better (there's a ton of other teams for that) but to make Googlebot's experience better. Right now we're in the process of getting publishers you've heard of to write blurbs for best lists, but we're supplying the products so it's not really a best list. I can't say I'm a big fan but my teams is great and I don't have time to look for a job right now.
jandrese 4y ago
You just know that some Amazon listings are written by GANs.
varispeed 4y ago
I hate this so much. These tools are getting better, so often you realise only half way through that you are reading AI text. Then you have to flush your brain and take a mental note, to never visit that site again.
- MivLives 4y ago
  I'm not a big fan either. At least the pages are just like: - useless ai generated intro text - ten products that actually are the best reviewed per category by users - brief ai blurb on product - 3 actual user reviews of the product So even with the ai text there's still some benefit to the page.

BonoboIO 4y ago

Content made for machines. Probably a billion dollar industry.

jquery 4y ago
Made by machines, for machines. It’s poetic.
- blippage 4y ago
  There's a line in one of Douglas Adams' books where he says something along the lines that things like VCRs were invented to watch TV programs so that you don't have to. Who would have thought that one man's joke would become a reality?
fab1an 4y ago
Content made for machines serving humans made by machines pretending to be human

tobr 4y ago

Sorry but every part of that sounds so terrible.

MivLives 4y ago
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of it. I'll never forget the look in our UX person's eyes when she realized that our team doesn't exist to make customer's experience better (there's a ton of other teams for that) but to make Googlebot's experience better. Right now we're in the process of getting publishers you've heard of to write blurbs for best lists, but we're supplying the products so it's not really a best list. I can't say I'm a big fan but my teams is great and I don't have time to look for a job right now.

jandrese 4y ago

You just know that some Amazon listings are written by GANs.

varispeed 4y ago

I hate this so much. These tools are getting better, so often you realise only half way through that you are reading AI text. Then you have to flush your brain and take a mental note, to never visit that site again.

MivLives 4y ago
I'm not a big fan either. At least the pages are just like: - useless ai generated intro text - ten products that actually are the best reviewed per category by users - brief ai blurb on product - 3 actual user reviews of the product So even with the ai text there's still some benefit to the page.