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Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs

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Re: Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs

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I think there is a problem of incentive here. When we made our websites Search Engine Optimized, the incentive was for google to understand our content, and bring traffic our way. When you make your content optimized for LLM, it only improves their product, and you get nothing in return.

You get to live in a world where other people are slightly more productive.

Re: Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs

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To get broad support from the server side, you’ll need to showcase high browser support. We need Wordpress and Wikipedia and Ghost to support this, and that won’t happen without native browser support.

> We need Wordpress and Wikipedia and Ghost to support this, and that won’t happen without native browser support. It can. Unlikely but possible. A good first step would be to have a well-written web component to be used like this: ` ... `, with no support at all for a build-step. The .js file implementing this should be included directly in the ` `. If that gets traction (unlikely, but possible) then the standards w…

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Re: Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs

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That is at most temporary. I expect within the next 5 year "partner products" and "LLM-optpmized content" will take the place of SEO. The economic dynamics did not change and the methods will adapt. Why wouldn't Google sell advertisers a prominent spot in the AI summary. That's their whole deal. Why wouldn't OpenAI do the same with (free) users.?

Because that’s not how LLMs work.

They have many ways to manipulate the LLM's results, for example they can use a lot of the same mechanisms that are used to block or filter out inappropriate material.

Re: Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs

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Because that’s not how LLMs work.

They have many ways to manipulate the LLM's results, for example they can use a lot of the same mechanisms that are used to block or filter out inappropriate material.

Given that there are entire forums devoted to successfully doing just that (easily) my point stands.
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