AI is going to kill the blogger

pitbully said:

No, this isn't another "AI is going to kill SEO" post. But that's irrelevant because AI is going to kill blogging whether search engines die or not.

I've been building an authority site and my goal was to have the highest quality articles possible, rather than going the AI-written content route. I spent a lot of time searching for the best article writers and these writers did not come cheap. I even managed to find two professional writers who were also experts in my niche. They are the cream of the crop, as far as writers in my niche go, and the price they charge reflects that.

I got about 80 articles deep into my project when I started to realize how many people are now using AI software, ChatGPT etc. to write their articles. For a minute I thought I was high and mighty, riding my high horse into the sunset of quality content that could only be written by an expert human writer.

Then, as someone who had never used ChatGPT before, I wrote an article in my niche using ChatGPT. My conclusion? The quality of the article was almost as good as what I'm paying legitimate experts top dollar for.

Could this have something to do with my niche not being very technical, and therefore being moderately easy for AI to mimic the writing of a legitimate expert? Possibly. But if you're making blogs with human-written content and you believe that AI-written content can't compete with yours, or won't soon be able to, you and your high horse are in for a rude awakening.

And if you think the fact that every blogger will soon be writing their content with AI isn't going to inevitably devalue all written content online, I would have to say you're ignorant like I was up until a couple hours ago.

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My opinion, no need to worry about it.

God is create a man, then a man create AI.

Humans are perfect, but it's better to collaborate with AI to produce more perfect content compared to:

Content is only purely man-made, or content is only purely AI-generated.

Sure, nobody is perfect, but we can build stronger content if colaboration with technology.

No, blogging always there.

TheSplinter said:

I disagree the quality is good. Chatgpt is very good at talking a lot without saying much. It talks a lot and used pretty words, but the substance isn't there. It's just fillers. Words that take you nowhere. Maybe if the article is simple enough, depending on the niche, it might do a good work, but i've been presented with plenty of content from Chatgpt that it is garbage. It sounds very good, but then i realize it didn't really say anything.

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Then the output you were given or read was given to you by someone that DOES NOT know how to use ChatGPT to get decent output. If you tell ChatGPT to write something, you will get the output you described. If you tell ChatGPT to write in a very specific way, you will get output with no fluff or filler and to the point. It will look like a human wrote it and pass the so-called "AI detectors" with a 95%~100% human output score. I've done it, and I keep doing it over and over, and it works just fine.

can't wait for the day when I will read a news article fully written by AI without even knowing

more than the A.I content is my fear of A.I search, if it answers most of the questions for the user then there is no need to go to a persons site and it will kill traffic.

How long til Google slaps the crap out of AI content?

Here's the deal. AI can only regurgitate what has already been written, it's not really adding any value to the web. It's recycling and then it will soon be recycling 2nd and 3rd generation AI content.

It's like this; 1st gen paper is good, recycled paper only has certain uses, 3rd gen has fewer uses still and 4th gen doesn't even make decent toilet paper.

That's what will happen with AI. it can only draw on content, then when most content is AI, it can only draw on itself, then starts degrading generationally.

Plus, Google has very sophisticated AI checkers AND it has a watermark agreement with Chat GPT (the watermarks in the code where you can't see it).

So, it knows what's AI and what's not.

How long before it muddies up the web enough, so that Google slaps it in an update?

Or, do you REALLY believe that recycled content that sounds ok, but contributes nothing new is best for the searcher?

pitbully said:

No, this isn't another "AI is going to kill SEO" post. But that's irrelevant because AI is going to kill blogging whether search engines die or not.

I've been building an authority site and my goal was to have the highest quality articles possible, rather than going the AI-written content route. I spent a lot of time searching for the best article writers and these writers did not come cheap. I even managed to find two professional writers who were also experts in my niche. They are the cream of the crop, as far as writers in my niche go, and the price they charge reflects that.

I got about 80 articles deep into my project when I started to realize how many people are now using AI software, ChatGPT etc. to write their articles. For a minute I thought I was high and mighty, riding my high horse into the sunset of quality content that could only be written by an expert human writer.

Then, as someone who had never used ChatGPT before, I wrote an article in my niche using ChatGPT. My conclusion? The quality of the article was almost as good as what I'm paying legitimate experts top dollar for.

Could this have something to do with my niche not being very technical, and therefore being moderately easy for AI to mimic the writing of a legitimate expert? Possibly. But if you're making blogs with human-written content and you believe that AI-written content can't compete with yours, or won't soon be able to, you and your high horse are in for a rude awakening.

And if you think the fact that every blogger will soon be writing their content with AI isn't going to inevitably devalue all written content online, I would have to say you're ignorant like I was up until a couple hours ago.

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Point me one thread where the OP made significant money with blog made with AI content. I agree that AI is huge but if you have good writers working for you, it will beat AI in long run.

Blogging has been dead for a decade. Not because of AI, but because people don't read blogs anymore. All these wannabe Nostradamuses running around with their clickbait "SEO is dead" and "blogging is dead" posts are so unbelievably nearsighted and lame. It was funny for the first month or two after November 2022, but now it's just sad.

TheSplinter said:

I disagree the quality is good. Chatgpt is very good at talking a lot without saying much.

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Exactly. ChatGPT writes a lot like a high school kid writes a paper or an essay: A lot of fluff information, that means very little since there is no critical thought or insight around the information that is literally being parroted back at the user of ChatGPT.

If OP thought he got knocked off his high horse because of ChatGPT content, then his high horse obviously wasn't that high, and his expensive copywriters are most likely overpriced.

ezekiel111 said:

Join the hype. Use AI to generate content faster.

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Following the crowd will never result in a great output. Even if you are using AI, you should make it unique approach.

Patrick111 said:

Plus, Google has very sophisticated AI checkers AND it has a watermark agreement with Chat GPT (the watermarks in the code where you can't see it).

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That is a joke. I know code, and I have copied plenty of text from ChatGPT. If there is a "watermark" then it's pretty easy to get rid of by simply pasting the text into Notepad before you copy it again to use elsewhere. Google has already stated how they treat AI content: Use ChatGPT as a tool (much like SEOs use SEMRush) and don't think you will ever get away with just copying and pasting.

The absolute worst part here is that even though Google said this recently, and SEO or digital marketer worth their salt already knew that copying and pasting (or "shortcuts" in general) anything doesn't work in the long run. Hasn't worked for many years and it's not going to change now.

There will be no bloggers in the future because too many people in America fail to enjoy reading. Just seeing some of the responses in this thread are disheartening - if you really are leaning to AI you're part of the problem. At some point AI is going to cut YOU OUT. People will go straight to their perfected AI of choice and have it churn out regurgitated drivel worthy of a Wikipedia page. Then the rewriting of history will start - see what's happening with Roald Dahl's "sensitivity writers" rewrites as we speak. Now let AI be trained to do that.

This self defeat laziness letting AI do your work will cut you and your money out in the end, which I'm sure monopoly companies like Google will love. If them letting AI generated content rank didn't wake you up nothing will.

THEY WANT YOU TO EMBRACE THIS.

Now ask yourself exactly why. Think. The AI can't do that yet.

You should think about using AI for making money instead of complaining about it.

Can AI extract data from image? if that's the case might as well embed all the technical know hows of my relevant niche into images to prevent AI from swooping in and getting all the juice for free.

I can relate to your feelings, I felt the same way until about 4 weeks ago when I actual tried it. every year I hear about AI writing content, and rewriters that can make your content unique and instantly ready to post, but every single year, the things I saw were just garbage, and I would never post it myself.

I thought the same thing when chatgpt came out, so for a long while I didn't even try it. I tried it eventually and was blown away, even though the content was dry, it was pretty good as far as giving information and decent advice, I starting pushing and asking deeper questions on niche topics id never expect a robot to know about or be able to answer, and it could give me pretty good answer. Sure some were wrong but the vast amount that were right struck me.
Even human writers give wrong facts sometimes so that wasn't really new.
Now I just feel like every moment I don't adapt to this, is a moment more I'm wasting. I had friends telling me about this stuff for a long while but it went in one ear and out the next.

Text content is totally devalued in my eyes, if anything, the only thing of real worth to me is someone being able to fact check the information, do the SEO and help user metrics (make sure the posts are actually what a reader wants and not just made for the ranking).

I used to have so much pride in having written my own blog posts, done the work on my own time for hours........... now AI can make better articles than me with the right prompts in a fraction of the time.

These things are kinda why I'm testing out that 4000 ai blog post thing on an old site of mine (case study Im putting on this forum).

In 3 days AI produced more content on my site than I've ever written in my whole life.
The ability to even create content on lower traffic long tail searches that just wouldn't even be worth the cost to produce an article for before is also a new thing.
I feel like blogging world isn't going to be welcoming to new bloggers anymore, now that I think most traditional long tail keywords will get filled because its so easy to make content for them now.

pitbully said:

No, this isn't another "AI is going to kill SEO" post. But that's irrelevant because AI is going to kill blogging whether search engines die or not.

I've been building an authority site and my goal was to have the highest quality articles possible, rather than going the AI-written content route. I spent a lot of time searching for the best article writers and these writers did not come cheap. I even managed to find two professional writers who were also experts in my niche. They are the cream of the crop, as far as writers in my niche go, and the price they charge reflects that.

I got about 80 articles deep into my project when I started to realize how many people are now using AI software, ChatGPT etc. to write their articles. For a minute I thought I was high and mighty, riding my high horse into the sunset of quality content that could only be written by an expert human writer.

Then, as someone who had never used ChatGPT before, I wrote an article in my niche using ChatGPT. My conclusion? The quality of the article was almost as good as what I'm paying legitimate experts top dollar for.

Could this have something to do with my niche not being very technical, and therefore being moderately easy for AI to mimic the writing of a legitimate expert? Possibly. But if you're making blogs with human-written content and you believe that AI-written content can't compete with yours, or won't soon be able to, you and your high horse are in for a rude awakening.

And if you think the fact that every blogger will soon be writing their content with AI isn't going to inevitably devalue all written content online, I would have to say you're ignorant like I was up until a couple hours ago.

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My opinion is that you should continue with your current approach. If content is really highest quality, AI blogs will not be able to outrank you.

I think genuine writers will only use it to overcome writers block

Thanks

Is AI going to kill online publishing? Well, it depends on how you define "publishing."

The traditional definition of publishing is that you get hosting, a domain name, and WordPress.

You create content and publish it in WordPress, and search platforms like Google and Yahoo index your content and show it in their search results.

Somebody clicks on your link in the search results, and you get traffic.

Pretty straightforward; this is how the game has been played for many years.

The game is changing fast because of the change in format for search results.

Consumers are now expecting, thanks to ChatGPT, to get "the answer."

So its job is to get the best answers from the data sources it has scraped and feed it to the searcher.

If the searcher wants, they can look at the bottom of the page to see the citations and sources, but let's face it, people don't do that.

They're in a hurry; they will not bother to verify the answers they got.

So this puts traditional publishers, such as "the blogger," in a pickle.

They will not get traffic from the new format.

You have to think creatively about where you fit into the mix.

Remember, if you are a legit blogger, you have something that Google, Yahoo, or any other search platform does not have.

You possess something that the end-user does not have.

What is that? Information.

Now, this is where the real competition comes in.

If the information you offer is something that you just scraped off of somebody else's page, you're fucked because you've nothing of value to offer.

You're just regurgitating shit that people are already offering to the world.

There is no value added.

Do you see where I'm coming from?

If you've been a roofer for 50 years and have excellent knowledge about roofing, shingles, and installation methods, the information in your gray matter is valuable.

This is where the real game changer would be because there will be a gold rush to mine that information.

After all, it is authoritative, based on experience, backed by expertise, proven by past performance, and reliable.

Does this sound familiar? It should, and I just laid it out in practical, real-world terms Google's EAT protocol.

Google has been screaming up and down until it's blue in the face that it wants EAT.

They even reiterated and enhanced it with EEAT.

The funny thing about ChatGPT is that it turbocharged this massive shift of data sourcing from the current model, which is basically recycling, re-scraping, reformatting, and regurgitating to actual data extraction.

That is where the money will be made, and the real goldmine is.

And guess what? It has a very high barrier to entry, and that is why, when it comes to the printed word, at least, the old ways of making money through content generation are pretty much gone.

But it doesn't mean that opportunities have disappeared.

There are still videos, audio, and Q&As.

You have to be creative about where the data flow and how you can leverage your position as a provider of information.

It's not easy because it's not obvious, but whoever figures it out convincingly stands to make a ton of cash.

In my opinion, it won't kill blogging, but it will change blogging with better way.I’ve used ChatGPT for blogging and it is helpful for building sort of a skeleton of a post.But it reads like AI wrote it. There isn’t a lot of feeling or personality and I think that is one way it can help change blogging for the better.Using ChatGPT to get the bare bones of a post started is a shortcut. The shortcut leaves you the opportunity to add your personal style and experience to even more posts.I think ChatGPT is going to help those that have something to say, say it more often.