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so... given that right now ChatGPT works on a set of finite, curated datasets (not the whole entire web like Google) and doesn't credit the authors of its infor

so... given that right now ChatGPT works on a set of finite, curated datasets (not the whole entire web like Google) and doesn't credit the authors of its information whatsoever, you are saying if it becomes prominent and destroys all traditional search traffic to website content authors, they will just happily keep posting quality content into the void, even though nobody except a mindless digester robot will read it? (since they will get no search traffic and will never get any credit of any kind for their work)

autoexec 4y ago
Probably? I mean, it's not as if only the AI will read it if that AI is passing along the information to others. The AI would just the interface people use to access the information. A do think a lot of people put stuff online just to be helpful. What amounts to "credit" is often very abstract. For the early web, counting page views and watching visitor counters increment was somewhat satisfying, but a lot of communication online is pseudo-anonymous. What's the "credit" we get here? Karma awarded to a pseudonym? If I leave a review on amazon, no one seeing it (but amazon) will ever know it was me, but it's nice to see others mark the review as having been helpful to them. An AI interface to information found online could provide something similar. For most people at least, I don't think that a lack of personal recognition or reward invalidates the sanctification they get from even the smallest acknowledgement that they've contributed to something. It also seems like much of the absolute worst things online exist only to optimize page views and monetary reward. Being freed of so much of that trash would be pretty nice.
- nicbou 4y ago
  I put helpful content online for free on my personal blog. The karma I get comes from the occasional thankful email, and coffee with strangers with similar interests. I don't even measure traffic. I just like to know that people land there and find what they need. If this corpus that took countless hours to create was distilled by an AI, it would feel completely pointless to extend it. Imagine writing a book knowing that no one will see it, but that an in-house writer at the publishing house will read it once and write its own version. They'll get credited and paid, but you won't. Some people are okay with that, but probably not the people whose words you read all day, either to solve a problem or entertain yourself.

autoexec 4y ago

Probably? I mean, it's not as if only the AI will read it if that AI is passing along the information to others. The AI would just the interface people use to access the information. A do think a lot of people put stuff online just to be helpful. What amounts to "credit" is often very abstract. For the early web, counting page views and watching visitor counters increment was somewhat satisfying, but a lot of communication online is pseudo-anonymous. What's the "credit" we get here? Karma awarded to a pseudonym? If I leave a review on amazon, no one seeing it (but amazon) will ever know it was me, but it's nice to see others mark the review as having been helpful to them. An AI interface to information found online could provide something similar. For most people at least, I don't think that a lack of personal recognition or reward invalidates the sanctification they get from even the smallest acknowledgement that they've contributed to something. It also seems like much of the absolute worst things online exist only to optimize page views and monetary reward. Being freed of so much of that trash would be pretty nice.

nicbou 4y ago
I put helpful content online for free on my personal blog. The karma I get comes from the occasional thankful email, and coffee with strangers with similar interests. I don't even measure traffic. I just like to know that people land there and find what they need. If this corpus that took countless hours to create was distilled by an AI, it would feel completely pointless to extend it. Imagine writing a book knowing that no one will see it, but that an in-house writer at the publishing house will read it once and write its own version. They'll get credited and paid, but you won't. Some people are okay with that, but probably not the people whose words you read all day, either to solve a problem or entertain yourself.