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by steeleyespan 1157 days ago
I'm literally having ChatGPT write articles using the Python API and a simple loop right now, lol. Incredibly cheap. About $5 for 2,000. Honestly, it does a way better job than the people I've tried to hire through Upwork and other places.
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What are you doing with these articles? Surely no one particularly wants to read either the ChatGPT ones or the ones by random people on Upwork.
It is my honest opinion that ChatGPT outputs more useful and accurate content than the non-native-english-speaker content that dominates Google listings these days. I've read so much complete garbage trying to make a basic search, and that's why everyone uses Reddit and says ChatGPT will replace Google.

Soon all that content will be replaced by GPT output, not my doing, but it's happening.

I don't know the consequences of language models recycling their own content, etc. but it's already here. Probably input will be limited to some authenticated trusted sources if possible.

In the grim dark future of Search Engine Optimization, there is only ChatGPT
I love how all this will enable "SEO professionals" and content marketers to destroy SEO.

Literally sawing the very own branch they are sitting on.

Search is already broken (i.e. Google listings)

Hopefully AI can improve ranking systems.

GPT leap-frogs ranking systems altogether by giving an answer without the user having to pilfer through results.
> Soon all that content will be replaced by GPT output, not my doing, but it's happening.

Well, GPT has to learn on something. Right now it's just a language model. It won't get better unless people keep writing these "non-native-english-speaker content".

And maybe we read different things, but I disagree - a lot of my problems were solved by niche non-native-english-speaker bloggers posting about their problems and original research that went into solving them.

Honestly I had been assuming that the SSO spam was already AI generated, just by something much weaker than ChatGPT.
Maybe he's one of the Kenyans and he's subcontracting further.