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I feel like the take there is that they're destroying the internet from the perspective of people who want to make money off of add revenue. Cynically, it's lik
by andy99 3y ago
I feel like the take there is that they're destroying the internet from the perspective of people who want to make money off of add revenue. Cynically, it's like they want the internet to be kind of bad - as in distraction from ads, begging for money and content arranged to support that, but not so bad it puts people off entirely or drives the incremental value of putting out "content" to zero because of automation.
For people writing on the internet for motivations other than ad-driven monetization, and those who read their stuff, there is basically no issue.
- grugagag 3y ago> For people writing on the internet for motivations other than ad-driven monetization, and those who read their stuff, there is basically no issue. I doubt these users will not experience a drop in quality as most authorship will roll out LLM laden content which will add more noise to the signal.
- beej71 3y ago> For people writing on the internet for motivations other than ad-driven monetization, and those who read their stuff, there is basically no issue. This is the key, I think. But it's small--The Small Web. I think we'll be better off, though. Have a day job and produce quality content in your spare time, is my motto. A few billion people producing content in their spare time is still more than we can ever hope to consume.
- sumeno 3y agoI feel like it's the exact opposite, LLMs are great for ad revenue because you can create a ton of garbage and monetize it in a fraction of the time it takes actual content creators to make their content. Meanwhile, the actual good content is drowned in a sea of garbage and much harder to find
- stavros 3y agoYou can only monetize garbage for a short time before people catch on and the entire model is destroyed (the good content along with the garbage).
- internetter 3y agoGrifters rarely think ahead, as noted in the article
- internetter 3y agoYeah, that was my argument. It’s incredibly difficult to find high quality writing at this point (regardless of if it’s for profit or not). The most successful place for me has been hacker news, but that’s not a search engine.