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That answer is quality content (higher than AI or human medians), links and pr and social activity and mentions, and then user experience.
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This is just a general discussion based on this YC tweet https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1966205098595336447?s=46Where do YC startups go to for growth guidance online? Is the secret behind closed doors?Every startup is unique but would love to hear what’s working or what the highest quality sources of ideas is!
Thanks for releasing this, it’s important to unleash government information that we’ve paid for as tax payers, especially if there’s 0 risk to national security.
In this case I may be missing something on enemy military missions to extract cyanide from rare American apples and use it against us.
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I have so many bundled-up ideas for content in my head, but I can never find time to get them out. In addition, I hate wasting time on building tables, formatting text, etc. There's a reason that a lot of busy CEOs don't hand-write blog posts, but will go on podcasts, video, and conferences, and spend hours there. The reason is that the communication speed is much faster talking and being interviewed. All that to say is that via a combination of transcription and AI-powered formatting, that's an area where LLMs can really help.
I do think LLMs + search is more helpful than a Google Search. Clicking through all the links for you and bundling it together is a much better experience and truthfully it finds and surfaces ideas and content that a normal search just doesn't, or it takes the user going to the 4th page to get there.
Third, entertainment. We often find ourselves deep in a doomscroll looking at images and video - on Instagram, TikTok, whatever. If AI can produce entertaining imagery and video for the pure goal of decompressing and relaxing after a long day out at the oil fields or as a janitor at the elderly care home, then there's value there. Sure it may not be beautiful art like an Oscar-winning film, but is it worse than reality TV? Even better is those who enjoy the creativity of seeing images from their mind produced vividly via something like Midjourney.
So all that being said, that's where I'm seeing the value.
But I totally agree with the author - if I have a team member that puts work in front of me that's supposed to be well done, and it's obviusly GPT-generated, that's an issue - unless we agreed on it.
The point of doing good work a lot of times means doing something new and creative. If it's AI-generated, there still has to be the human touch. I could go on - we all have perspectives here - but I'll stop there!