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> Because the longform article is what will be pulled into the search summarizer that the user will consume -- they won't interact directly with your website te
by RugnirViking 4y ago
> Because the longform article is what will be pulled into the search summarizer that the user will consume -- they won't interact directly with your website text. If LLM search engines actually take off, people will make websites assuming that only an AI will ever visit the site.
But this is what I'm getting at. Why write the entire article. Why pad out or whatever, if an AI is going to summarize it anyway? this is useless busywork, especially if no human will ever see it.
It doesn't matter if it's easy to write long text with AI, in fact that highlights the futility of it. You're adding a bunch of information that you know is going to be discarded by that selfsame ai at the users end. But, and here is the crucial part, a summary of a sufficiently short piece is going to be almost verbatim the piece itself - the best way to influence the output would be to just write what you want the output to be, and leave it at that. Anything extra is a distraction for the ai
- danShumway 4y agoOh, I see what you mean. Yeah, that's a good point. My only thought is that you'll still need to include whatever is necessary to get your website into the search results anyway, but even that is not necessarily the same as "include information for humans". Write as little as you can get away with writing, and target everything else at the AI.