Re:26% of the top websites are now blocking GPTBot
by drdaeman on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @02:36PM
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It's amusing how scale changes the landscape.
A human reads something for free or "free" (if they're a product for advertisers or data collectors). And no one bats an eye if they retell it to others. There are careers of this - teachers, instructors, advisors.
But if it's a a machine (or a superhuman - I want to hope hope we'll see AGI someday) that can do this at scale, the whole world is suddenly upside-down. I honestly have no idea how things should be (I have opinions, but I cannot really validate them, so they're just... opinions), but I find it interesting.
Being a pessimist and strong believer than humanity as a whole leans towards shittiest-but-cheapest solutions (down to a certain threshold, of course, but the plank is rarely high) my guess is that those websites will eventually try to monetize LLMs the way they do this with humans - by injecting ads in the information provided. Fear the day new breed of LLM SEOs will start spamming, inventing fancier and fancier techniques of poisoning the well. And so the history will repeat itself.
A human reads something for free or "free" (if they're a product for advertisers or data collectors). And no one bats an eye if they retell it to others. There are careers of this - teachers, instructors, advisors.
But if it's a a machine (or a superhuman - I want to hope hope we'll see AGI someday) that can do this at scale, the whole world is suddenly upside-down. I honestly have no idea how things should be (I have opinions, but I cannot really validate them, so they're just... opinions), but I find it interesting.
Being a pessimist and strong believer than humanity as a whole leans towards shittiest-but-cheapest solutions (down to a certain threshold, of course, but the plank is rarely high) my guess is that those websites will eventually try to monetize LLMs the way they do this with humans - by injecting ads in the information provided. Fear the day new breed of LLM SEOs will start spamming, inventing fancier and fancier techniques of poisoning the well. And so the history will repeat itself.