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Ive seen so many twitter threads where SEOs are excited about the content generation opportunity.

BigCos will follow suit and it'll be very hard to differentiate human generated corporate drivel from GPT powered drivel.

The web will be dramatically worse in a year as this all goes more 'mainstream'

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Maybe the mainstream web content will get so destroyed that we will get to return to forums, blogs, webrings, and newsletters made by individual people for their own gratification. One can hope.

What's to stop forums from being flooded with GPT bot accounts or people from using ChatGPT to write blog posts?

Money, gatekeeping, harsh moderation rules. Extremely niche topics that ChatGPT probably lacks enough modeled data for.

In essence, what forums of yore used to be like anyways.

I can see forums with strict proof of humanity requirement becoming more popular in the future, perhaps with a nominal $1/month subscription fee and phone number requirement.

This is essentially my hope for generative AI. I'll flood the platform web with so much bs that tight knit small forums and user groups will flourish again.

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