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B…but I’ve just started my (medieval) content farm. https://tidings.potato.horse/about
gotta love a custom cursor
PS. check out the dog wearing a hat on potato.horse if you haven't
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B…but I’ve just started my (medieval) content farm. https://tidings.potato.horse/about
I think I’m in love with you, dear farmer. (Jk, but truly a beautiful site. Every link I clicked was a delight. Your brain seems like a marvelous place.)
Thanks, I've been trying to build a digital garden (or a cemetery) for some time, but with interconnected sites/articles/toys on different domains rather than a single Obsidian Publish style site.
Tangent: I recently found a beautiful and extremely well structured digital garden made by Maggie Appleton (https://maggieappleton.com). So, now I'm just jumping between either being inspired by the amount of research she's shared or analysis paralysis since there are so many interesting approaches to the subject matter.
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.
B…but I’ve just started my (medieval) content farm. https://tidings.potato.horse/about
Is the actual prose written by hand, or is it from an LLM?
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> I'd guess that google is currently the single largest funder of "content" in the world, between adsense on websites and payouts to YouTubers. 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.
Google used to produce/fund content. See YouTube Originals.
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Are you saying that the motive for posting a bread recipe that starts with 5000 words about the history of bread will evaporate, so we'll be left with websites from enthusiasts who have something interesting to say?
I'm a little worried about the coming flood of AI-generated "recipes" that fit some linguistic model but have never been cooked by any human.
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> Content farms are a drain on human attention. 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".
Sure, but you would as a generality have gotten BETTER information from the real sources from whom the SEO-oriented farms took the info and optimized for the search engines. They're repurposing someone else's original content.
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B…but I’ve just started my (medieval) content farm. https://tidings.potato.horse/about
Super great site. Love the attention you took to find some crazy looking medieval creatures for the "authors". Is the actual prose written by hand, or is it from an LLM?
Obviously with this kind of work, the good stuff requires luck (== quantity) or a manual curation process. I just wanted to run this on autopilot.
I might add a feedback loop at some point, e.g. poets with better engagement become more motivated and those who perform poorly start getting jealous... a little bit of drama here and there.
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> I would not make a publicly searchable blog or Github repository if I were well-versed in setting such RDS on-premises You won’t. But I will and I think others will as well. My goal is to help people set up RDS and I don’t care about commercialization. So happy if AI reuses all the material. There are many technical blogs that are just hobbies, or fun, or brand PR, or book tie ins or whatever.
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. The for-profit company is helping people, in exchange for direct and/or indirect monetization. Your blog post's knowledge-dump ends up never being seen. This is why StackOverflow reacted so poorly to Stack Exchange's announcement they would be using all of your hard work to tr…
Especially when they knew it was allowed by the CCL?
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. I disagree. What incentive does a website have to produce content if it receives no traffic? Website owners want control over their traffic and the data too. They will wall off any search engine that doesn't give them anything in return (basically they're scrapers at that point). The search engin…