31 points by bhuwanaryal1404 2 days ago | 17 comments
Fast machines, slow machines (2023)(jmmv.dev) Well, that was unexpected. I recorded a couple of crappy videos in 5 minutes, posted them on a Twitter thread, and went viral with 8.8K likes at this point. I really could not have predicted that, given that I’ve been posting what-I-believe-is interesting content for years and… nothing, almost-zero interest. Now that things have cooled down, it’s time to stir the pot and elaborate on those thoughts a bit more rationally.
Low Background Steel – Content from Before AI(lowbackgroundsteel.ai) Sources of data that haven’t been contaminated by AI-created content. Low Background Steel (and lead) is a type of metal uncontaminated by radioactive isotopes from nuclear testing. That steel and lead is usually recovered from ships that sunk before the Trinity Test in 1945. This blog is about uncontaminated content that I'm terming "Low Background Steel".
Create Missing RSS Feeds with LLMs(glek.net) It used to be that blogs all had RSS feeds. Somehow there are more blogs than ever before, but some people do not bother with setting up an RSS feed.
Nobody should be a "content creator"(christianheilmann.com) As part of my job, I have to keep up with the social media space and I’m worried, bored and annoyed in equal measures. There is not much social about it any longer. Instead it’s become a race to the bottom of lowest common denominator content. And interaction bait. Or rage bait. Or just obvious spam disguised in seemingly sophisticated sound bites generated by AI.
An Engagement Bait Translator(nodumbideas.com) When Elon Musk took over Twitter (“X”), he introduced creator payments in an attempt to get people to post more. For a few months, my timeline was full of screenshots of posters flexing their giant payouts.
My Digital Garden Philosophy(emgoto.com) If you spend time in tech blogging circles, you may have come across the concept of a digital garden, which offers an alternative for how you publish your blog online.
56 points by surprisetalk 78 days ago | 64 comments
AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data(elenaverna.com) AI is quietly upending the business models of major content sites. Platforms like WebMD, G2, and Chegg - once fueled by SEO and ad revenue - are losing traffic as AI-powered search and chatbots deliver instant answers. Users no longer need to click through pages when AI summarizes everything in seconds. Brian Balfour calls this phenomenon Product-Market Fit Collapse, a fitting term, marking it as the next big shift in tech.
276 points by corentin88 84 days ago | 311 comments
It’s still worth blogging in the age of AI(gilesthomas.com) My post about blogging as writing the tutorial that you wished you'd found really took off on Hacker News. There were a lot of excellent comments, but one thing kept coming up: what's the point in blogging if people are using ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek to spoon-feed them answers? Who, apart from the AIs, will read what you write?
Just Write(chasingbrains.co) A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox.
Reddit CEO confirms plans to introduce paywalls for exclusive content(techspot.com) A hot potato: Reddit will be introducing something that few users are likely to want later this year: paywalls. CEO Steve Huffman has confirmed that the platform will be introducing the ability for some Redditors to create content that only paid members can see, though it won't apply to any subreddits currently available.
The True Costs of Being on YouTube(carlalallimusic.substack.com) I started my YouTube channel in earnest in October, 2021, shortly before That Sounds So Good, my second cookbook, came out. A little over three years later, on January 29, 2025, I uploaded the 177th episode of Carla’s Cooking Show. That video, for a cheddar burger named after my mom, is my last for now, and possibly forever.
770 points by alexgiann 103 days ago | 359 comments
Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?(seangoedecke.com) I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”1, which means something like “AI content presenting itself as human”, or even just “unwanted AI content”. But I have no problem reading AI-generated content when I talk to Copilot or ChatGPT. Why is that?