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This is the third and final post in my three part series on blogging. It was due last year but I got a little busy!
Part 3: For Humans
I don’t blog for robots. I find it quite alarming how many people do. I write for humans.
I’ve never given thought to SEO on my personal websites. SEO can be done effectively but I will always speak negatively of it because its impact has been largely detrimental. It has a habit of bloating both code an content. That isn’t to say I don’t play the SEO game to some extent. Good user experience should be good SEO. People prefer fast websites; fast websites will rank higher. Good markup and metadata improves accessibility and happen to help ranking algorithms. Where interests align that’s a bonus.
I can’t be the only one seeing the quality of search results tank? Let’s be honest, as despicable as Google are, their search results were miles ahead. Now it seems Google has given up. They don’t even pretend to care about quality. Apparently Google are using “AI” in their algorithm now? Thankfully in my 15 years of blogging, I haven’t been writing for Google nor playing their game. Disappearing from search isn’t my concern.
Counterfeit Content
And what of “AI”? 2024 saw a sharp rise in “AI” generated slop polluting the web. Everything was rebranded as “AI” and shoved in our face. I refuse to write for or with over-hyped LLMs. I don’t want to read “AI” tripe, why should I subject others to it?
Millions of dollars and kilowatts are wasted in generating this garbage. Imagine if that money went to paying the real artists, authors, and journalists a fair rate? But nobody wanted to pay for real content and then suddenly everybody is investing in counterfeit content! I just don’t get it. I’ve yet to see a compelling use case for LLM-generated fiction. If they cannot distinguish the truth, what’s the point? No, this bubble is not for me.
I voice my protest with a robots.txt which I assume is entirely ignored. I’m fighting evil with evil by using Cloudflare AI block. I’m not naive, I know these efforts are too little, too late. But what else can I do, just give up?
I can continue to write my own words, write my own code. Create my own art. I plan to keep doing so throughout 2025 and beyond!
This content originally appeared on dbushell.com and was authored by dbushell.com
dbushell.com | Sciencx (2025-01-08T10:00:00+00:00) Weblogging: Part 3. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/01/08/weblogging-part-3/
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