[watwut]

AI will kill the volunteers run websites and blogs faster then it will kill corporate ones. It will kill free information first. It will basically finish the process google search engine started when it started to require seo to find stuff.

People will have less or no motivation to create them, because well, why would they? It will be just a food for AI of some corporation.

And more importantly, people won't be finding and joining communities that produce the websites like stack overflow.

It was nice while it lasted, but likely it will be something that existed only for one generation.

[panstromek]

I have no intention to stop writing on my blog for AI reasons and I don't even see why I should. I suspect a majority of people who post here are the same.

[watwut]

Google making blogs impossible to find if you dont do SEO already started that process. There is less of this kind of activity then it used to be. Some people who write mostly for themselves will continue, but most wont. They won't even become aware that such option exists.

Monkey see monkey do where people start these activities because they see others doing them will disappear entirely.

[beej71]

Same. And my logs say that AI crawls my pages roughly 1.2 bazillion times per day.

[teemur]

> People will have less or no motivation to create them

Not sure if we surf the same internets... In the web I am surfing, the more "motivation" (trying to get ad revenue) the author has, the crappier the content is. If I want to find high quality information, invariably I am seeking authors with no "motivation" whatsoever to produce the content (wikipedia, hacker news, reddit with a heavy filter etc.) I'm pretty sure we would be better off if the whole ad industry vanished.

[conradkay]

I doubt search engines are primarily what helped most blogs and sites grow. It's forums/word of mouth/social media

[cube00]

> It will be just a food for AI of some corporation.

Food that said corporation makes a profit off while paying the author nothing.