Re:Google says AI in Search is driving more queries and high...
by skeledrew on Thursday August 07, 2025 @08:10AM
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> recognition, attribution, social media attention
Expectation of these in particular makes your blogging a product.
> with no human actually reading my words
But it - or at least the idea - is being ultimately read by humans, as long as some article is in the top results for relevance to some LLM prompts. It just may be summarized, or particular parts extracted first, or reworded for clarity (like I may ask for an "eli5" if I encounter something that's interesting but I find concepts going over my head), or otherwise preprocessed in order to fulfill the prompt parameters. All actions which the very human users may have to do manually anyway in order to efficiently consume your content (or give up and move on if they can't be bothered), is now automatically done by LLM agents.
I have zero interest in providing free labor for LLM companies with no human actually reading my words. I don't think I'm alone in that stance.
Similarly, I used to help people on forums for free. My reward was getting respect of my peers, the feeling of helping another human being and sometimes them being grateful, rare side job opportunities thanks to people finding my specialist posts. That was fun, being anonymous question-answering bot for AI to scrape is not.