Meta is now repurposing content from food bloggers and summarizing articles across various platforms using AI.
Coupled with SGE and the prioritization of large brands and sites like Reddit and Quora in top search results, it’s now pointless for small publishers and non-commercial site owners to produce or share original content.
What you platforms and even the big media sites cannot seem to grasp is the logic bomb you’re writing into your business plan by destroying small creators through stealing their work.
Yes, users may find the oatmeal blandness of regurgitated, AI-groomed content satisfying.
For a while.
But eventually, they’ll lose interest, even if they (and you) can’t explain why.
Dopamine deprivation is why — 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 beings need dopamine, especially when they’re losing jobs and businesses for reasons beyond their control (but within yours).
If anything, using AI summaries turns people off, and trying to solve it using math to surface “hidden gems” is polymorphic: it just introduced more of the same blandness via content theft and spam.
Meanwhile, you’re alienating the dopamine creators: millions of small sites you’re destroying through exploitation of their work in your greed to keep audiences to yourselves.
Will you lose users overnight?
No.
For now, AI is novel to everyone and you’re so drunk on the newness of adding it to your platform to see the pattern and anticipate what happens when you don’t factor in all the other things making people weary.
Or that you’ve become one of those wearying things by destroying the creators who supplied you with the novelty your users want.
TL;DR Dear platforms, your math is flawed.
When you do implode, look back and you’ll see the reason you were too greedy and dismissive to grasp.
Not my blog, obviously, but this is an AI overreach by Facebook in a massive way, says Ally.
This is Half Baked Harvests full recipe:
I clicked through to her site and compared ingredients.