A little warning about chatGPT

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Martinibuster wrote a nice article about chatGPT, watermarking, SEO uses etc on SEJ - [searchenginejournal.com...]

I think it needs to mention one more thing. You can't even log into chatGPT without google knowing, it employs Google captcha.

- The captcha is part of the chatGPT login
- Your IP and other details are captured
- Your browser is cookied
- etc

How hard would it be to cross reference that your Google account also uses adsense or analytics for such and such websites... and to flag them for monitoring to spot AI generated text? Not very... they already do something similar for signs of illegal activity if I remember correctly.

Regardless, chatGPT follows a bunch of patterns. I cant remember the last time I had a conversation with someone that began a sentence with "additionally", a topic with "there are many" or finished the conversation with "finally". ChatGPT does all 3, a lot.

Use sparingly. Perhaps get help with page titles and descriptions, or come up with ideas, but if you're copying and pasting Google's likely already flagging your sites the moment you load that captcha. If you log in to try it out occasionally that's probably fine but if you're tripping that captcha daily, multiple times a day... it looks sus.

Google may not use all information they know, it might be working wonders for you even, but you put yourself in a position they could, if they choose to down the road.

One more thing - one day, probably not too long from now, some queries are going to have no results at all. A chatGPT-esque bot is going to answer your query right on Google. Maybe even with voice. If AI content is too prolific online they may as well use their own version to serve queries right?

The last hurdle for that is monetizing it imo.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Given the above, its success will lead to its downfall. If it is truly able to disrupt the "information" web as it appears it likely will, then publishers of the "information" will no longer be needed. Without new, diverse and timely content, the training of the AI model will suffer.

Doubtful because AI is being specialized to do individual jobs, just like people do. The AI lawyer taking on the first case in March is going to lead to more refined AI lawyers, for example.

Diagnostic medicine is going online, largely with AI, but they will send people for imaging or further diagnostic once an online AI has triaged them. The Diagnostic AI will only improve over time.

What's happening now is webmasters are using chatGPT to create content and looking at it from that angle, but every industry is looking at it from their own. There isn't ONE AI, there are already 100's, many of them already being invested in by the TRILLIONS in total.

Don't worry, chatGPT created "content", used to make website content, is self-defeating. I can already spot chatGPT created articles, they "feel" the same. Often starting off with "there are many yada yada" and finishing with "it's important to consult with a professional" type verbiage.

What you might call "filler" content to transition from topic aspect to aspect is less diverse on chatGPT.

Try SonicChat, you will notice the differences to chatGPT and spot AI content more easily as a result, it's not as unique as people think. Also, AI generated content can only tell you about what's already known online, where it learned. The AI will never give you completely unique ideas or developments, even if you ask it to imagine one.

Use it as a writing and research assistant, not a content producer.

[tangor]

There's caveats with all new tech, this stuff is no different. One of the drawbacks is that these AIs have their own internal logic that can affect YOUR own internal logic and research on topics. Not convinced this is a proper tool yet, but waiting to see it in the real world for any kind of production value FOR THE CREATIVE WEBMASTER.

[martinibuster]

Doubtful because AI is being specialized to do individual jobs...

Well... that's not how AI learns. :)

For example, you can teach a child how to play a piano and that same student may begin writing songs, something they weren't trained to do.

That's how AI learns, too. They ingest information. Afterward they begin doing things, like translating between languages, things they weren't trained to do. This is something called Emergence. I talk about it in this article I wrote [searchenginejournal.com] about an AI that may be Google's Helpful Content signal.

In the case of the above AI, it was supposed to detect machine-generated content. But it learned by itself to detect low quality content in general, including forms of low quality that it was not explicitly taught how to detect. Which made it perfect for web-scale content quality detection.

[singhamarjeet8130]

I guess we can't do much about this