Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google

Re:Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in C... by janalsncm on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:23AM (#34243655)

I don’t think many people primarily think of their Web 2.0 content as valuable, even if you tell them it is. The value is a byproduct of use, and this will continue as long as people still enjoy creating content. Content that is deeply engaging will always have value. Content that is simply the upteenth regurgitation of a canonical source (recipes and API documentation come to mind) will be displaced by a source that just answers the damn question.

What could cause a major problem for search engines is the balkanization of the internet from Web 1.0 personal sites to Web 2.0 shared (but still indexable) platforms to mostly unindexable private groups. Discord, and Whatsapp are models for how this might happen.

What might cause an acceleration in that direction? Bots. ChatGPT can create content that is authentic-looking, and if open forums become Markets for Lemons [1] then people will move to trusted groups like smaller chat groups. (The other alternative is verifying identities which will happen but has privacy issues.)

[1] https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ai-markets-for-lemons-and-th...

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Re:Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in C... by anileated on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @07:06AM (#34244594)

The danger of the likes of ChatGPT is that this enjoyment of content creation largely hinges on humans entertaining the notion of other humans reading said content, as opposed to accessing it in an anonymized scraped form via an LLM—I can’t see how mass adoption of copyright-laundering LLMs would not lead to a balkanized internet with mostly closed, unindexable knowledge.

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