Inizia a preoccuparmi l'impatto che l'AI sta avendo sulla creazione di contenuti di qualità. Gli incentivi per farlo si sono ridotti drasticamente (primo, tutti parlano di lavori che scompariranno, e allora perché uno dovrebbe impegnarsi nell'acquisire nuove competenze? secondo, il trend di riduzione del traffico ai siti web è ora molto evidente).
Dice Josh W. Comeau, che possiede un prolifico blog gratuito che fa da base per promuovere i suoi (straordinari) corsi:
I’ve spoken to a few course creators now, and we’re all seeing the same trend. Revenue down 50%+. Fewer people engaging with our content. People switching to LLMs, which slurp up all of our work and regurgitate it, without consent or compensation.
Esperienza simile quella di Stefan Judis, autore della bellissima newsletter Web Weekly, che dice:
This isn't the full graph but my blog traffic is down to a quarter from what it used to be. Web Weekly subscribers are stagnating at around 6.4k since the beginning of the year. Frankly, many others and I struggle and question if all this education, curation, writing, and speaking actually matters. And I honestly don't have an answer to that.
I, for one, enjoy a human touch. I enjoy craft and care. I enjoy the tiny details. I like the idea of a human putting in the work. Regardless of whether it's writing, speaking, coding... I'm online for seeing "the good stuff".
If everything is low effort, what's the point of it? If everything becomes generated, there's no need for creation. And maybe that's just the next era and I'm sentimental about the good old times [...].