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Fair, if your content is your product, but I’m more than happy for every LLM on the planet to summarize my page and hype the virtues of my product to its user.
by piker 1y ago
Fair, if your content is your product, but I’m more than happy for every LLM on the planet to summarize my page and hype the virtues of my product to its user.
- Disposal8433 1y agoWhy do tech bros assume that every site is selling a product? There are blogs, personal web sites, communities, and open-source projects out there.
- piker 1y agoIf there's no product, and it's free, why would one care about it appearing in the output of an LLM? If it's so secret that it shouldn't, then perhaps it should be behind some auth anyway.
- Wilder7977 1y agoBecause writing is, in many senses, exposing yourself, and at the very least you want the recognition for it (even if only in the form of a visit to the website, and maybe the interactions that can follow)? Maybe you want at least the prestige that comes with writing good content that took a lot of time to create. Maybe because you want to participate in a community with your stuff. Maybe other million reasons. I know that medium, substack and the other "publication" platforms (like LinkedIn) are trying to commodify even the act of writing into purely a form or marketing (either for a product, or for your personal brand), but not everyone gave up just yet.
- piker 1y agoAgreed, and we can argue semantics, but many folks would consider the content in that case a product.
- PenguinCoder 1y agoNot everything everyone does is for a profit motive. I'm not trying to sell you anything ; myself included, when you visit my site. It's just reading material.
- piker 1y agoSomething being a product does not require a profit motive.
- jerf 1y agoEnjoy the brief window of LLMs "hyping the virtues of your product" to its users for free. In 2030 that's not going to sound realistic at all. And I feel I'm being generous pushing it up to 2030, the first "sponsored training data" either already exists or will probably be out this year, the only question being whether it will be publicly admitted to or not.
- piker 1y agoNo doubt, but that doesn't change the position.