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B…but I’ve just started my (medieval) content farm. https://tidings.potato.horse/about
Awesome. I'm today years old stumbling on the existence of a `.horse` TLD. What else are there -- wacky, fun, and interesting TLDs?
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B…but I’ve just started my (medieval) content farm. https://tidings.potato.horse/about
Awesome. I'm today years old stumbling on the existence of a `.horse` TLD. What else are there -- wacky, fun, and interesting TLDs?
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B…but I’ve just started my (medieval) content farm. https://tidings.potato.horse/about
Awesome. I'm today years old stumbling on the existence of a `.horse` TLD. What else are there -- wacky, fun, and interesting TLDs?
Hot take: SEO is dead, content farms are done, almost no one will leave Google/Bing to read more than what it generates. Thank you content writers for your service training LLMs. Here's 10 amazing ways to find a new career in a LLM world.
Hot take: SEO is dead, content farms are done, almost no one will leave Google/Bing to read more than what it generates. Thank you content writers for your service training LLMs. Here's 10 amazing ways to find a new career in a LLM world.
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> You aren't helping people, though, you're helping a for-profit company earn billions of dollars off your, and other's good will and knowledge. This has all been played out before. I’m cool helping companies along with people. Imagine you discover free energy. Would you not give it away because you don’t want billion dollar companies to benefit? I have a choice to give away info or keep it. Id rather give it away th…
If you discovered free energy then you and your family are probably getting whacked rather than disrupt the billionaire-class who depend on scarcity, artificial or otherwise.
Energy is one of many inputs into industrial systems, and it is a fairly commoditized one at that.
Free energy doesn't mean you don't need tons of infrastructure still in place, tons of parts and labor to install that infrastructure, factories to make the parts of that infrastructure. And then when it comes to using that energy, large capital expenditures are still needed to get up and running, which means the rich will keep getting richer.
Or to put it another way, electric cars + solar panels are totally a thing you can do right now, and at no point was anyone's life put at risk to bring these about.
Odds are the first country to get free energy would see obscene economic growth, all sorts of absurd things become possible. For start, salt water + energy => fresh water, solving the droughts that our farmlands are facing.
All metal processing uses tons of energy.
Meanwhile, my local electric co, Puget Sound Energy doesn't even make a billion a year in profits. The nation's largest energy company, Exelon, barely clears 2 billion in profits per year.
Microsoft makes more profit in a week than the nation's largest energy company does in a year.
Hot take: SEO is dead, content farms are done, almost no one will leave Google/Bing to read more than what it generates. Thank you content writers for your service training LLMs. Here's 10 amazing ways to find a new career in a LLM world.
It sounds like you're against this. I'm not sure why. SEO is a scam to convince search engines to show something other than most useful content. Content farms are a drain on human attention. Human intelligence had it's chance and we squandered it. Bring on the AIs, they're not going to be worse than the mess we've already made.
Maybe it’s a matter of differing definitions, but I’ve got a lot of useful information out of well-written and well-researched "content farms".
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Well, finally people will just make things for the pleasure of adding to the knowledge in the world rather than trying to "build an audience" or "monetize my content" or whatever. No one is going to click through to your blog, so you have no incentive to shittify it. We're going back to the original days of the Internet that HN users often beg for. Now only the true creators will create for the sake of creation: ars…
The early days of the internet people made content and it was easy to find and get readers. Under this new world your content is impossible to find by real users. Opposite of the early internet
Perhaps this thing could be tailored to a specific community? Or be, itself, a community of communities?
I may just be onto something here… damn, this may be a billion dollar idea.
Joking aside, I’m pretty sure this will make communities like HN and Reddit, and closed discords, slack & all, blow up.
Google’s results already are worthless half the time anyway.
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This is just too expensive. Google is used to get all the content for free.
I'd guess that google is currently the single largest funder of "content" in the world, between adsense on websites and payouts to YouTubers. They're certainly not getting the content for free. They're running ads against it, and making money on it, but they are also paying for it. It's a relatively small shift in their funding model to pay out to creators for their contributions to an AI model instead of paying out…
Those are advertisers funding the content, not google. google is just a middleman. They generate no content and pay none of they money, they just facilitate the transaction and take a cut.
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Wrong. The low-quality content farm will be out and the high-quality site will be fully paywalled (no more data to AI). For instance, when searching for information on setting up RDS, like high availability MySQL on self-hosted servers on-premises, neither ChatGPT nor Brad provided the necessary details. I would not make a publicly searchable blog or Github repository if I were well-versed in setting such RDS on-prem…
It seems to me like the options will be 1) publish free content on your website and make zero money because it will get crawled and displayed to readers elsewhere or 2) publish content on your website behind a paywall and make zero money because no one will pay for it (even if they could somehow find it, which they couldn’t).
For regular tech bloggers such as the ones you see posted on HN, I agree it’s desperate.