Do you get discouraged creating blogs due to Ai?

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AutomationIsKey

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The constant news of Ai and how it's about to take over has hindered a lot of my progression. I understand that a majority of the world still doesn't even know what the heck Chat GPT is, but the fact that I have devoted so much time into the topic has me a little fearful and has actually hindered my work ethic the last couple of months especially. Before I was utilizing the tool, but now I am wondering what the point of creating a blog even is. Google is working on tools that will negate people even visiting websites.

What's the point to create a blog, if Ai will answer a query immediately? Of course some people want authentic opinions, but the traffic which will hit a website seems to be minimal. I understand its in googles best interest monetarily to continue rewarding blogs, but how the hell does this even happen? I haven't personally googled a query in a LONG time because chatgpt answers all my questions without filler content / or clicking through 20 different websites targeting a keyword that don't discuss my focus keyword at all.
 
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Sure it's easy to get discouraged if you let it get to you. You're not the only one feeling that way. I don't have a blog for some of the same reasoning.
 
Yes, I feel discouraged in making a traditional blog. I feel like with text being so cheap, and if people start moving most their queries to AI then traffic will drop, and many things we ask dont need additional sources, a simple definition is good enough.

This further kills "what is" searchs more than wikipedia did to me.

Now for most searches I do, I find myself either just using chat gpt (I have a tool that allows me to highlight and ask the question to it without ever opening the website so this many times is even faster than google).

Or looking for a well done youtube video as people like to be entertained while they learn.

The only things ive truely been using google for that youtube nor chat gpt could help me good enough with is looking for SEO information and deeper guides than what people post at surface level.

Isnt that ironic? the only thing im using google for is to learn how to rank on google?

Sometimes id use it for statistics but bing search is hooked to the web and can usually pull the statistics im looking for with decent accuracy.

I count bing search as just another word for chat gpt at this point.

I used to think social media influencers had the more unsteady job but now im not so sure.

Not even news is always successful in getting a search from me as AI can usually get me a good enough summary and I never wanted to read a whole article just to search for the details in the first place.

I feel like as this gets common we will all start fighting for traffic from lower and lower amounts of queries that still get real searches.

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or this could all just end up like voice search that was supposed to "kill" SEO and just becomes an option people have and not

the ending.

SEO has been named dead over and over and it is still here.

I remember when I was just starting out I already thought it was dead because of snippets, wikipedia and practically every other thing preventing click throughs.

Voice search was so much faster for me in many things but in all honesty, now it is older and the novelty wore off, I havent made a single voice search in probably a year.

Maybe I just dont like talking to computers and phones.
 
Can you rent a car using ChatGPT? Or book a table at your favorite restaurant?
 
Marko T said:
Can you rent a car using ChatGPT? Or book a table at your favorite restaurant?
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bold of you to assume I rent vehicles or book tables.


jokes aside, since these things are becoming the things you still never to navigate to websites to (hardly since im sure it is a matter of time before AI can automatically do a lot of this stuff for you with the business name alone).
 
AutomationIsKey said:
The constant news of Ai and how it's about to take over has hindered a lot of my progression. I understand that a majority of the world still doesn't even know what the heck Chat GPT is, but the fact that I have devoted so much time into the topic has me a little fearful and has actually hindered my work ethic the last couple of months especially. Before I was utilizing the tool, but now I am wondering what the point of creating a blog even is. Google is working on tools that will negate people even visiting websites.

What's the point to create a blog, if Ai will answer a query immediately? Of course some people want authentic opinions, but the traffic which will hit a website seems to be minimal. I understand its in googles best interest monetarily to continue rewarding blogs, but how the hell does this even happen? I haven't personally googled a query in a LONG time because chatgpt answers all my questions without filler content / or clicking through 20 different websites targeting a keyword that don't discuss my focus keyword at all.
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AI wont negate all niches
Just most of them
 
What's the point to create a blog, if Ai will answer a query immediately? Of course some people want authentic opinions, but the traffic which will hit a website seems to be minimal. I understand its in googles best interest monetarily to continue rewarding blogs, but how the hell does this even happen? I haven't personally googled a query in a LONG time because chatgpt answers all my questions without filler content / or clicking through 20 different websites targeting a keyword that don't discuss my focus keyword at all.
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YOU haven't googled, but other people do google things. The reality you're describing isn't the reality we're living in right now. People still visit sites and AI doesn't answer everything. When I go to Google, AI doesn't give me the answer. So, you have to decide whether you want to live in the current reality or in a hypothetical future. Maybe in the future blogs won't be a thing. Or maybe search engines will limit their AI capabilities, so it doesn't completely destroy the purpose of websites. This is an answer no one can give you. So either live in the current reality or be a slave of your fears.

Ultimately, it is up to you to make that decision and deal with the consequences. It's like betting. However, with or without AI most blogs are a waste of time. So either you have something really good to offer, or it's probably not worth yours or anyone's time.

Maybe create something that's not completely dependent on search engines. Not every site is found through google. I think that's the future.
 
TheSplinter said:
YOU haven't googled, but other people do google things. The reality you're describing isn't the reality we're living in right now. People still visit sites and AI doesn't answer everything. When I go to Google, AI doesn't give me the answer. So, you have to decide whether you want to live in the current reality or in a hypothetical future. Maybe in the future blogs won't be a thing. Or maybe search engines will limit their AI capabilities, so it doesn't completely destroy the purpose of websites. This is an answer no one can give you. So either live in the current reality or be a slave of your fears.

Ultimately, it is up to you to make that decision and deal with the consequences. It's like betting. However, with or without AI most blogs are a waste of time. So either you have something really good to offer, or it's probably not worth yours or anyone's time.

Maybe create something that's not completely dependent on search engines. Not every site is found through google. I think that's the future.
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I am already using AI instead of google for some cases. But sometimes you want to hear opinions of real people. Thats when I use google. there are also other reasons
 
As I get older I find that I still do things the way I've found worked for me in the past . Music, food tastes , etc have stayed relatively the same as well. People who are at this point in life (typically 35 and up in my experience) will still make up the majority of the world for a long time. The normal person will not be switching to a new way of finding an answer just because a new way is better. Plus I believe that most people want to investigate and learn truth/facts on their own instead of trusting one source. Or maybe I'm just whack lol
 
Just remember that the whole thing, for now at least, is massively overhyped. The media (both traditional and alternative) is an inbred, trend whoring, click/view baiting machine that sensationalizes everything for eyeballs.

ChatGPT is wrong... A LOT. It's fine for some things, ok at others, and terrible at quite a few. It's not replacing a regular search engine and even if it did, there would be zero incentive for any website to allow a system like that to scrape their site's content and send them nothing in return. They'd be mass blocking, calls for legislation that makes bypassing these blocks against the law, class action lawsuits.

Look what YouTube had to go through to work out even a half-baked balance between people stealing and uploading content, and the right of the creators. Even in cases of fair-use, YT's system favors the person making the copyright claim.

Same happened with Google News, and they weren't even monitizing the news results. They still got hit with lawsuits and legislation in multiple countries and ended up making deals with big news outlets to pay them to list their content.

People who have no real understanding or experience with AI outside of ChatGPT or some crappy AI assistant on their phone or Alexa device are blown away by ChatGPT but for the rest of us, it's really overhyped and it was seen coming a hundred miles away.

Most of these AI systems use algorithms, formulas, and techniques created decades ago, mostly from the 1960s to the 1990s. It's was mostly just a lack of processing power and enough data for large scale training that made those discoveries impractical to implement until the last decade. Even now, an oversized, unoptimized model like GPT4 isn't very financially practical to operate, which is why OpenAI needed billions from MS which it's burning through at a fast rate.

AI will eventually see real breakthroughs that will upend socioeconomics but ChatGPT isn't one of them, it's an iterative technology, one that OpenAI didn't even develop themselves. They were just the first to dump a bunch of money into training a large GPT model AND opening it up to the public, which is what got them the viral publicity to secure additional funding they badly needed.

Blogs, backlinks and Google Search aren't going away just yet.
 
Marko T said:
Can you rent a car using ChatGPT? Or book a table at your favorite restaurant?
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Actually, they're adding that functionality in. OpenTable already has integration with ChatGPT to make restaurant reservations. But unless you're physically disabled and can't easily use a computer or smartphone, this is really just a gimmick and something they could have already done with some off the shelf speech to text built into their app or website.

Companies are adding in these ChatGPT integrations mostly for the PR. They're trying to cash in on the hype train and get some free press.
 

Do you get discouraged creating blogs due to Ai?​

On the contrary - it encourages to start as much sites as you can.
 
Marko T said:
Can you rent a car using ChatGPT? Or book a table at your favorite restaurant?
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Not yet... but soon you'll be able to yes, Chat GPT plugins already on the way (I'm currently on the waiting list)
 
GenesisOne said:

Do you get discouraged creating blogs due to Ai?​

On the contrary - it encourages to start as much sites as you can.
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I have personally felt that blogging has been on the exit already for years. My last blogging adventures have been with PAA websites, but to me this seems like the ultimate ending. I have a very hard time being optimistic about SEO in regards to Google / Search Engine usage. I feel like I am better off devoting my time to learning how to rank on other networks now for more traffic..
 
Yes and No. I have a million ideas that would need AI for it and it just motivated me to learn how the technology works.. its either adapt or die type of game hereo_O
 
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