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@ -81,6 +81,21 @@ Unsurprisingly, no, his affiliate marketing site did not take off and make a bil
I'm pretty sure this trend is going to die out the way "buy this NFT and soon you can sell it for infinite money" hype did. Maybe FoldingIdeas will even make a video on it.
The trend I'm less confident is going to die out is "automate content creation with chatGPT". It's pretty big right now, from really low-effort entries like "faceless videos" on YouTube (...find link) to making automated blog posts---often for your affiliate marketing---
The trend I'm less confident is going to die out is "automate content creation with chatGPT". It's pretty big right now, from really low-effort entries like "faceless videos" on YouTube (...find link) to making automated blog posts---often for your affiliate marketing---people are arguing that soon you'll be able to automate away all that pesky writing you need to do in your life.
If I can get a little polemical, I find most of this sorta fascinating because, well, I'm not sure if I understand the point in writing things that are simplistic enough you can automate the process.
Using an LLM to help brainstorm? Oh, absolutely. Using them to turn outlines into drafts? I personally don't have use for that but that's only because I'm an experienced writer. For a novice I can see it being really helpful for seeing examples of how writing could be done. The problem with using the LLM to try and "automate" content creation is that it's honestly just a mediocre writer. If you're literally just taking the output without large amounts of editing, you're only going to get blandest version of possible of that writing. It will be competent in terms of grammar but will be, largely, just an unpacking and repacking of definitions.
How could it not be? It's about likelihood and averages with a little wiggleroom in terms of randomness so that it doesn't behave like hitting word prediction on your phone repeatedly.
So, yes, you can automate out huge chunks of writing if the writing was going to be bland and perfunctory to begin with, but if that's the case why are you doing it in the first place?
To make Wittgenstein wince via non-linear time: of that which one must automate, one must remain silent.
And yet far from being silent we're seeing people literally bragging about using chatGPT to create the literary equivalent of shovelware:
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Part of the danger here is that we're going to create an environment in which the web is further diluted in terms of real, careful, informative content. This is going to degrade search even more than it already has been and, I fear,