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> LOTS of people write because they just want to share. The blogging scene from the early millennium is now a shadow of its former self, and one of the most of
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> LOTS of people write because they just want to share.
The blogging scene from the early millennium is now a shadow of its former self, and one of the most often stated reasons for abandoning blogging is “my site just wasn’t getting many views any more”. In a world where AI generated content abounds, there will be even fewer eyeballs on whatever one shares and therefore less feeling of reward for sharing. Moreover, the people still blogging are often loading their content with referral links, because in an economy full of glamorous influencers, even ordinary people are tempted to seek some financial reward for sharing beyond the mere pleasure of it. Less eyeballs due to AI competition means fewer people clicking those referral links.
- sdenton4 3y agoYah, blogs are already a rounding error in the corpus, and that has nothing to do with llms. Those of us who are still blogging are already doing it in spite of ~waves hand broadly at the world~. I'm not truly sure that llms mean less eyeballs, though. They produce mediocre content in an arena where high quality content matters. There's already a massive pile of crap on the internet; it's already all about surfacing the relevant and the interesting bits.