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xanrah | 8 months ago

I'm sorry, should we design websites around SEO, or should search engines just use context properly?

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echelon|8 months ago

Search engines and websites are going to be subsumed by LLMs, so it's not like this argument matters anymore.

bigbuppo|8 months ago

The general consensus is that the dislike of AI is so strong, that a large chunk of the population will disregard something if they even think it is generated by AI. Also, the LLMs need a continuous feed of new, original material to ingest or they'll be all thumbs.

While the long-running trend of SEO stuffing from low-value content farms has polluted search results for years now, Google didn't really care about fixing that problem because there's a perverse incentive to generate more ad revenue by making the first page results usesless. Who cares about doing the right thing? Daddy's got to get his quarterly numbers up. I should also note that those content farms were also early adopters of genAI as we know it today.

Infinite growth isn't a thing. Every cancer eventually kills its host.