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Re:It's still worth blogging in the age of AI by gerdesj on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @04:31AM (#43169865)
"I just don’t like feeding the “grey goo of information”"

If your voice isn't spoken then it will go unheard. It is of course up to you but I think that blogs and websites run by real people are invaluable (and I'd love to see what AI makes of that word!)

This is the bigger issue at the moment: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1008897/bbe01d846ec5e9cd/

Re:It's still worth blogging in the age of AI by Retric on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @05:57AM (#43170360)
Scraping is a short term anomaly. The hype cycle is already dying which quickly reduces the amount of resources devoted to such efforts.

Where I think that post failed is poisoning the well of anyone ignoring Robots.txt is arguably a moral imperative. That post was concerned with wasting kWh, but ensuring that bad actors don’t profit discourages people from being bad actors.

Re:It's still worth blogging in the age of AI by simianparrot on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @08:54AM (#43171880)
My «voice» isn’t heard from a trained LLM anyway. Only a vague, blended and remixed imitation at best. As a human I have no interest in feeding that beast.
Re:It's still worth blogging in the age of AI by gerdesj on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @07:09PM (#43179128)
I can hear your voice, right here, right now!

You wrote your comment in English but used French style quotation marks and made a few minor grammatical errors in your first sentence (won't instead of isn't, by instead of from). Your second sentence beautifully paints a gloomy image with just nine words and your final flourish has just the right level of "fuck it".

If you can deliver that amount of character in a single line in a second language then please do feed the beast. We are all the product of what we eat. The beast needs to eat its greens and suck up some vitamins.

Re:It's still worth blogging in the age of AI by watwut on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @10:47AM (#43173407)
I used to write technical things. I would not be heard anyway.

I don't feel like giving free inputs to an AI company. They will use it and once they have domination they will abuse their position.