I don't use AI to post to my blog nor am I selling things, they exist...I think, dunno, as I find interesting blogs that seem readable I just add them to a list of sites I occasionally hit if I get bored of hacker news front page (and didn't feel like checking new posts like this)
Perhaps we should blame the SEO mechanism of Google Chrome or the GEO mechanism of GPT. If it weren't for the fact that they needed to extensively reference structured textual materials to recommend or organize their responses, perhaps blogs wouldn't have become so cheap.
Agreed, and it's not just blogs. Amazon KDP is full of AI kids' books, junk self-help, novels run through a model.
I think the most valuable content still comes from people’s real-world experience.
They exist.
Check out these HN threads -
Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466488
Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842276
Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625952
Hacker News but for independent blogs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567155
Show HN: Blogs.hn – tiny blog directory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36613727
And then, here's mine. Haha -
https://www.rxjourney.net/
That's a treasure
I don't use AI to post to my blog nor am I selling things, they exist...I think, dunno, as I find interesting blogs that seem readable I just add them to a list of sites I occasionally hit if I get bored of hacker news front page (and didn't feel like checking new posts like this)
Perhaps we should blame the SEO mechanism of Google Chrome or the GEO mechanism of GPT. If it weren't for the fact that they needed to extensively reference structured textual materials to recommend or organize their responses, perhaps blogs wouldn't have become so cheap.
Fewer readers, fewer writers, it’s a constructively deprecated medium.
A lot of the people who would’ve blogged fifteen years ago only make patreon/yootoob/ig videos now.
Yet I agree with you, the slow death of good prose is a sad thing to see.
The rise of Short form videos.
Try the smolnet, which would be the web before it went all "the 'Akira' stadium scene", or gopher, or gemini (no, not the google twaddle).
Plenty of blogs still out there doing that. What's worked for me, ironically, is asking an LLM to find blog posts on the topics I'm interested in.