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People say it's a terrible time to be a creator, but I just started again to blog 2 months ago after a decade of pause because I believe it's just the opposite.

With the abysmal noise/signal ratio plaguing the web, there is tremendous value in having a source of information manually crafted by someone you trust.

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How do you trust anyone after GPT4? You can't tell how much they relied on the model. And maybe some things AI does are good - it could generate writing style improvement advice, counterpoints to your ideas, help find mistakes, help with formatting complex math, etc.

Depends on the industry. ChatGPT output is horrendous on a lot of technical topics. Equally, whether a thought is something new and novel, and even demonstrating/documenting something new or interesting.

It's also not great at providing an entertaining style, give you context, make sure you have per-requisite, double checking there is not error in what it gives you, etc.

But this will change in the future, so I would say those are temporary advantages for us only.

Ultimately, it's a big problems for readers, but it's great for writers.

Once a reader has validated a writer (you like the style, the context helps you and proved to have high value), your attachment to the author is even higher than before, because the cost of finding anything else of equal quality is skyrocketing.

I've been given a lot of attention to find the right fruit and vegetable provider for years since we have abundance but most of it taste like crap. I'm extremely loyal to the farmers I buy from, and I buy at a premium from them. Despite the fact I'm always trying to find new ones, it's very rare I do.

It will be the same with writers.

Even if GPT starts to include my articles in it's training data set, I can still provide a lot of value with tooling, contextualization, integration, coming up with something new, etc.

To me, GPT is only making my work shine even more. And it helps me tremendously when I code, so I just love it.

Unfortunately, it's gonna be pretty difficult to trust any source once all these things multiply.

How do I know you're not just reading some technical subject that was prepared by An AI

In stead of repeating the same things endlessly you wil now have to come up with something original

Being original is even more of a cat and mouse game now, and you still have to find ways to attract readers.

Selective pressure to give an advantage to creative and qualitative writers is a good thing on the long run.

There is, but you have to make the privacy tradeoff to verify yourself among the sea of noise.

For most people, trust is a social problem, not a technical one. Almost nobody is going to care you work is signed, people will just check if they still enjoy the style, if it's still quality, if they still get value out of it, etc. And if one day they feel betrayed, you will be excluded from the pool.

Sites like HN will make the pool an more and more exclusive one to get in. I predict moderation is going to get tighter and tighter everywhere.

Therefore, creating a reputation and getting into the club early will prove a tremendous boon.

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