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Only insofar as travel blogs are shallow SEO spam. Good travel blogs maintained by locals are immensely valuable. They usually have much better technical advic
by nicbou 3y ago
Only insofar as travel blogs are shallow SEO spam.
Good travel blogs maintained by locals are immensely valuable. They usually have much better technical advice about local culture, airports, payment, SIM cards and that sort of thing.
- markdown 3y ago> They usually have much better technical advice about local culture, airports, payment, SIM cards and that sort of thing. If the locals have written any of that down or recorded it on video, the AI will have consumed it already.
- nicbou 3y agoI have tested AI against my own content (I'm one such local) and it was pathetically incapable. It was closer to someone guessing what the answer is. AI content feels a lot like the copywritten content it replaces: a shallow repetition of what an actual expert wrote down.
- markdown 3y agoYou are referring to the baby AI of today. Give it a year or five.
- swexbe 3y agoFor every good local tourist guide in the training data there is 500 garbage SEO articles. No wonder the AI sounds more like the latter. And it won't get better in the short term. Differentiating between quality articles and SEO spam is not just hard, it's an arms race. Whatever changes you make to your definition of quality the SEO spammers will simply adapt. Until we build AI-powered robots that can go visit these places themselves, I don't think this problem can be solved.
- nicbou 3y agoAt some point, someone has to go observe the real world. AI can't go out there and try new restaurants.
- hospitalJail 3y agoI think the other side is true, AI gobbles lots of information, so the generic advice is going to be what is repeated. Its going to recommend seeing the touristy places, and it won't know about the hole in the wall restaurants.
- markdown 3y agoIt'll know about them; you just have to know what questions to ask.
- vintermann 3y agoAs a local of a tourist destination: why would you trust us? We want to take your money.
- Brendinooo 3y agoMaybe I want my money to be taken! I just stayed at an Airbnb in Crown Heights (Brooklyn) a week ago, and knowing nothing about the neighborhood but wanting to eat a meal there, found that Google Maps was a little overwhelming. It was nice to skim some articles that seemed human-curated; it at least gave me an idea about where the hotspots of the neighborhood are and what kind of cuisine I should be favoring.