Comment by Retric
7 months ago
The internet has increased in the number of users and the amount of time they spend online not just the number of creators.
The odds 5+ people see your content is probably the same as it ever was, but ‘success’ has been redefined in terms of ever larger follower counts.
In the age of bots, LLMs and people that have about .5s for you to impress them with a flashy image as they scroll by endlessly, I doubt you get the same attention you would’ve in the 90s Internet.
More eyeballs, sure, but worth 1/1000th of a visitor coming straight from a webring for your own niche, or that found you in the right section on Yahoo and AltaVista.
Ye. "Everyone" somehow ended up visiting The Best Page in the Universe somehow. The internet was way smaller and the reach in the internet population way higher.
I personally believe that this doesn't hold, more and more competition outside of webpage, means that we check less and less pages each year, I feel ai could be a savior by destroying the whole internet by spaming SEO websited, and make small pages the only way to find something
Not to make you more downtrodden, but it's not like AI would have any trouble at all producing a small page.
If you mean that there needs to be signals in place that an article was thought about and physically typed up by human fingers, well, that's a different problem I suppose.
In any case, the system prompt can factor in any existing signals that SEO might want to adjust for ("You are a chill software engineer dude, who understands the subtlety of colloquia in the field. You speak in modern slang and are very energetic about you field.").
I share your downtrodden sentiment, for what that's worth. The only idea I have for making genuine human digitized hallmarks is to start "writing" in heiroglyphs and pictograms. I'd love to hear more realistic ideas for signaling humanity, however.