Perhaps we should blame the SEO mechanism of Google Chrome or the GEO mechanism of GPT. If it weren't for the fact that they needed to extensively reference structured textual materials to recommend or organize their responses, perhaps blogs wouldn't have become so cheap.
I don't use AI to post to my blog nor am I selling things, they exist...I think, dunno, as I find interesting blogs that seem readable I just add them to a list of sites I occasionally hit if I get bored of hacker news front page (and didn't feel like checking new posts like this)
This is a very deserving use of the word ironic. What are the odds it finds other AI written blog posts? How long before it crafts you a custom blog author for you to enjoy.
> What are the odds it finds other AI written blog posts?
I've only seen 2 posts out of the approx 20 I've read, and it was easy to spot from the first couple of sentences. Better than any other solution I've encountered (I'm open to suggestions!)
> How long before it crafts you a custom blog author for you to enjoy
I ask for links to blog posts, not for it to show its contents in the response.
They exist.
Check out these HN threads -
Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466488
Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842276
Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625952
Hacker News but for independent blogs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567155
Show HN: Blogs.hn – tiny blog directory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36613727
And then, here's mine. Haha -
https://www.rxjourney.net/
That's a treasure
Perhaps we should blame the SEO mechanism of Google Chrome or the GEO mechanism of GPT. If it weren't for the fact that they needed to extensively reference structured textual materials to recommend or organize their responses, perhaps blogs wouldn't have become so cheap.
I don't use AI to post to my blog nor am I selling things, they exist...I think, dunno, as I find interesting blogs that seem readable I just add them to a list of sites I occasionally hit if I get bored of hacker news front page (and didn't feel like checking new posts like this)
Agreed, and it's not just blogs. Amazon KDP is full of AI kids' books, junk self-help, novels run through a model.
I think the most valuable content still comes from people’s real-world experience.
Fewer readers, fewer writers, it’s a constructively deprecated medium.
A lot of the people who would’ve blogged fifteen years ago only make patreon/yootoob/ig videos now.
Yet I agree with you, the slow death of good prose is a sad thing to see.
The rise of Short form videos.
Try the smolnet, which would be the web before it went all "the 'Akira' stadium scene", or gopher, or gemini (no, not the google twaddle).
Plenty of blogs still out there doing that. What's worked for me, ironically, is asking an LLM to find blog posts on the topics I'm interested in.
This is a very deserving use of the word ironic. What are the odds it finds other AI written blog posts? How long before it crafts you a custom blog author for you to enjoy.
> What are the odds it finds other AI written blog posts?
I've only seen 2 posts out of the approx 20 I've read, and it was easy to spot from the first couple of sentences. Better than any other solution I've encountered (I'm open to suggestions!)
> How long before it crafts you a custom blog author for you to enjoy
I ask for links to blog posts, not for it to show its contents in the response.
I see a lot of essays on noncommercial self hosted blogs on HN.
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