Authors exploring the near-term implications of generative AI?

I haven't seen anyone write about this, but my prediction:

Generative AI is a superpower for spammers and content farmers. It's hard enough to look up recipes, product reviews, or anything about health today, and they're going to make it worse.

The consequence for this is an opportunity to build for trust over convenience. More value for things like Wirecutter/Consumer Reports, less for Amazon reviews and Yelp. Curation and Wikipedia-like governance models over algorithms.

What's particularly interesting about this is its more about social innovation than technical innovation. You don't need to win the cat and mouse game with AIs trying to fool you, you need a voluntary association of food blogs that verify they're real people who test their recipes.

Nothing is certain, but I think there's something interesting here.

I semi gave up publishing tutorials on my public blog when I realized people would just copy them and republish for their own profits. Then I've read on HN how one person who had some HTML games on his site, had it iframed/proxied by others on their ad infested sites. That hurt me more even.

ChatGPT just cemented my new mentality.

People will consume content, that is a fact. But publishing new interesting things is just not worth doing for free anymore.

So now I resorted to publishing books on Amazon and building my own email list (while I do the usual freelancing).

Like it or not, the walled gardens are where it's at. You just need to make YOUR OWN walled garden and ask people for money to join and consume/enjoy it.

Also: ChatGPT can (almost) not produce anything new, it's just regurgitating/mixing things that are already online.

Not sure if it this is the kind of analysis you’re after but here’s a discussion that might be good starting point. HTH!

https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2212/msg00019.h...

Can you use it to help clean up a resume? Mine looks way to clinical, not enough fluff words.