Re:Ask HN: Will personal websites gain traction as AI conten...
by jfengel on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:26PM
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I don't think so, because so few people have much to contribute.
AIs work because the web is "done". All of the information in the world has already been transferred to the Web.
People have long complained that the Web isn't as much fun as it used to be. They usually blame it on some kind of nebulous power that forces new stuff out, but I think it's because there just isn't that much new stuff.
There's always news and the march of technology. But radically new and important things don't actually happen all that often. People already consume far more news than is good for them, hoping for that dopamine rush of novelty.
So nobody cares about your 100% human generated web site, because it's just not all that interesting. How many things will you create in your lifetime that's really worth anybody taking note of?
We've already got aggregators, that try to look for a few interesting things every day. Somebody's art piece, some bit of news, some nifty project. But any individual home page is only going to be interesting on rare occasions.
The aggregator's job is to filter out the vast amount of crap that people generate hoping for attention. That's a problem that preceded bots. It has been listicles and memes and clickbait -- microscopic bits of novelty that people hype as if they were more.
The solution is not to certify the web sites, but to stop relying on the Web to provide you a constant stream of novelty. Rather than looking for something interesting, be interesting.
AIs work because the web is "done". All of the information in the world has already been transferred to the Web.
People have long complained that the Web isn't as much fun as it used to be. They usually blame it on some kind of nebulous power that forces new stuff out, but I think it's because there just isn't that much new stuff.
There's always news and the march of technology. But radically new and important things don't actually happen all that often. People already consume far more news than is good for them, hoping for that dopamine rush of novelty.
So nobody cares about your 100% human generated web site, because it's just not all that interesting. How many things will you create in your lifetime that's really worth anybody taking note of?
We've already got aggregators, that try to look for a few interesting things every day. Somebody's art piece, some bit of news, some nifty project. But any individual home page is only going to be interesting on rare occasions.
The aggregator's job is to filter out the vast amount of crap that people generate hoping for attention. That's a problem that preceded bots. It has been listicles and memes and clickbait -- microscopic bits of novelty that people hype as if they were more.
The solution is not to certify the web sites, but to stop relying on the Web to provide you a constant stream of novelty. Rather than looking for something interesting, be interesting.