Maybe the mainstream web content will get so destroyed that we will get to return to forums, blogs, webrings, and newsletters made by individual people for their own gratification. One can hope.
I can see forums with strict proof of humanity requirement becoming more popular in the future, perhaps with a nominal $1/month subscription fee and phone number requirement.
This is essentially my hope for generative AI. I'll flood the platform web with so much bs that tight knit small forums and user groups will flourish again.
I wonder if he ends up factoring in twitter ad revenue for this designed-to-go-viral series of posts.
I’d find this much more interesting if he had taken a day or two to see how this worked out rather than doing edge-of-your-seat engagement maximizing farming. This seems far less about what gpt-4’s capabilities and much more about how talking about it can inflate follower count.
Agreed, not only would I be far more interested if we didn't know specifics about what he's setting up, he also won't be able to tell what revenue was generated because of GPT's ideas vs his viral posts.
It’s kind of funny. It’s like those viral tweets where the OP follows it up with an affiliate link to some aliexpress lamp after it becomes popular, but he’s trying to do it in real time with everybody’s support.
It will be hilarious when this culminates with “wow this did numbers, you need one of these in your life [link to terrifying knockoff fleshlight] :crying laughing emoji:x10”
Did anyone read the tweet thread? The idea is an affiliate link website, but the website doesn’t work, looks terrible, and has no affiliate links. But, the author got over $1,000 in “investments” that he’ll probably never have to actually pay back, so I guess that counts as a win or something.
So far the strategy seems to be: "get a lot of hype, get some people invest in the hype, the topic of the hype doesn't matter as long as it includes $THING_OF_THE_DAY".
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 67.6 ms ] threadBasically the same generic things 1000's of other sites and blogs tell you to do, but poorly.
And yes SEO spam farms are already a massive problem the only challenge is GPT is going to dial it up to 11.
BigCos will follow suit and it'll be very hard to differentiate human generated corporate drivel from GPT powered drivel.
The web will be dramatically worse in a year as this all goes more 'mainstream'
In essence, what forums of yore used to be like anyways.
I’d find this much more interesting if he had taken a day or two to see how this worked out rather than doing edge-of-your-seat engagement maximizing farming. This seems far less about what gpt-4’s capabilities and much more about how talking about it can inflate follower count.
It will be hilarious when this culminates with “wow this did numbers, you need one of these in your life [link to terrifying knockoff fleshlight] :crying laughing emoji:x10”
Yet another task still requiring humans.
I expect another twitter thread on using GPT-4 to automate increase in followers. Hmm, perhaps it will spend the $100 on that...
lybad business plan