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ChatGPT can't replace writing intended to convey information, but that's only a small fraction of the writing that's getting created. There's a whole industry w
by jmillikin 3y ago
ChatGPT can't replace writing intended to convey information, but that's only a small fraction of the writing that's getting created. There's a whole industry where people are given prompts like "five paragraphs about the history of spaghetti" and get paid $0.01 per word, then that text gets put into an Italy-themed travel blog full of ads.
You and I wouldn't notice if that entire industry was replaced by ChatGPT because nobody reads that text, it doesn't exist to be read, it exists to tickle some ranking model deep in the bowels of Google. But you can be sure that the people selling coherent text for $0.01/word will notice when ChatGPT can generate the same thing for $0.000001/word.
- Foobar8568 3y agoI don't remember what I search yesterday, but the whole first Google page result was useless websites like that, endup using site :-/
- sanitycheck 3y agoI think you're right, and it's so depressing. What I need is not an AI that generates that bullshit, but an AI that detects it and ensures I never have to encounter it.
- Capricorn2481 3y agoThose people are not going to be hired in the future. The companies will use ChatGPT directly. I don't disagree, by the way. I think ChatGPT may be a net negative for us, but the issue you describe has more to do with the way Google rewards the web