I have noticed that someone immediately calls out pretty much every bit of content as AI generated, whether it obviously is or not. I guess this is a best case scenario.
I do wonder what will spring up next to allow high quality content to be found.
You know which travel advice I prefer? The one from a small, local blogger that loves their city. You know where I find my music? At house parties. More and more, I also crawl the profiles of individual users for content that I might like.
The cosy web is my refuge from scale and its consequences.
And that lack of scale means it has little mass monetization potential. It's actively hostile to weirdos just trying to make a buck. I don't get randos from who-knows-where trying to hawk their wares in my private group chats, so those recommendations actually carry weight.
We're between a rock and a hard place with the internet's collective signal to noise ratio plummeting and no easy way to fix it.
I really don't see how these people making the ebooks are making any money on these books either since they cost 99 cents and they pay for advertising. Maybe they're using llama2 idk lmao, either way I've seen a ton of embarrassing titles pop up on there and don't want people thinking I'm interested in that slop.
SEO was annoying but there was still value in the results. Now, as soon as I detect or start to believe some result is AI bullshit I immediately close the tab out.