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A brief guide on avoiding this pitfall, for search engine and LLM operators: Step 1: Punish ranking and visibility of sites whose llms.txt differs from a rando
by ssl-3 2y ago
A brief guide on avoiding this pitfall, for search engine and LLM operators:
Step 1: Punish ranking and visibility of sites whose llms.txt differs from a random sampling of actual web (HTML) content.
Step 2: There is no step 2.
- Retr0id 2y agoIf you can reliably machine-diff format A and format B, there's no need for two different formats in the first place.
- blharr 2y agoRight. And so you'll end up punishing some sites that do it perfectly, while other sites that game the algorithm game first priority.
- Eisenstein 2y agoBrief guide for site optimizers: 1. Figure out how to embed content that only LLMs see which affect their output 2. Wait for that to stop working 3. Innovate another way to get past new technical problem
- mystified5016 2y ago> No one wins in the long run by creating technical solutions to human incentive problems. It is just a prolonged arms race But maybe this time the naive technical solution will work
- ssl-3 2y agoEverything is temporary. You, me, LLMs, Google, humanity, Earth, Sol... We can choose to carry on and perform [what we think are] improvements and make the best of it, or we can choose to cash it in early and simply give up.