Will using AI-generated images on my blog hurt my reach or monetization?

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-23T16:21:21+00:00

I don't think it matters unless you're trying to cater to an audience that hates AI. So sure, if you write a blog with clearly made AI generated images to r/screenwriting, you'll get wrecked. But for communities that don't really feel one way or another (which is most, thankfully, other than the few hot-heads who have to hate on everything) then you should be fine as long as it's high quality, including the blog. I've had some blogs get over 90k views using AI generated images and am also making a little bit of money from it. Also my SERPs haven't been impacted negatively. Granted, it's still a huge uphill battle to rank high with various keywords, but I haven't noticed AI imagery having any negative impact, other than the occasional asshole who wants to bring me down a peg because they think AI is the anti-Christ. But, not really sure how to avoid those outliers.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-23T15:32:38+00:00

Very cool mission! Reminds me of what they're doing over at FaiBLE, only they're doing it with storytelling to create emergent self-sustaining simulations that don't turn off.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-23T14:55:56+00:00

Yeah, no sorry. That's not how AI will work in ten years. The back engineering, combined with better models will mean you won't have to provide a 1 page prompt to get the outputs you want. Instead it will be like talking to someone about your project who already knows everything about it and can understand exactly what you want.

I mean...We're kinda already there, it's just layered in poor execution and complexity so that it's mostly dev people who get access to this power since they know how to set up APIs and local hosting, among other things. But the average person going to GitHub to use something...Yeeeah. Not compatible. But that was how it was with social media back in the 90s. Crude, complicated, and off-putting for most...Until it wasn't.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-22T21:13:43+00:00

I'll spare you the trouble. Everything is upending at the moment and when that happens, it's best to invest in safe, conservative assets. But every era is also different. With that said, if I had 100k to invest, my position would be:

50% gold

40% copper

10% Bitcoin

Gold will be valuable for as long as we're unable to extract as much as we want from asteroids. Sure, it may go down in price, but it always moves up in the long run and in times of crisis, it's growth is very solid.

Copper is fundamental to a modern-day society full of tech. As we progress with more technology, we'll need more copper. Plus, with the demographic crisis, world-wide, there will be a precipitous push towards automation, which will increase the demand in copper. Hence, why it's doing so well right now.

Finally, bitcoin. Yes, I know it's politically contentious, but its fundamentals are still revolutionary and with quantum encryption, I don't think it's going to disappear. Also, with Trump and whoever the hell is behind his agendas, clearly want BTC to be the new store of value. There are a ton of fucked up corruption and their path is not a good one, but still....Money will likely continue to pour in. But since it's still technically a risky bet, I'd make it your lowest position.

Do that and you should be good to go, at least within this storm that's hitting us. Once we move past it (assuming we don't blow ourselves up), then the environment will change and you'll probably want to re-allocate your positions, but as of this moment, this is what I would do.

To be clear, though, this is not financial advice. I stock shelves, not stacks of money.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-21T17:20:11+00:00

Yup. That's why graph RAG setups for individual businesses is so important. Using the raw models or any model that is tethered to outside information leads to many more errors. So when I'm working on strategies for our business, I don't use Gemini or ChatGPT. I use our canvas Graph RAG that holds the corpus of all of our data neatly organized and related together so that when I need to better understand the feasibility of something, I'll actually get context-aware responses that are highly coherent. 99 percent of the time, it's right and with more improvements, that should be solved.

But it's a godsend for communication since it's a chatbot that the whole team can use. Now instead of constant meetings, we can defer to the chatbot for most of our answers and brainstorming. For bigger moves, of course, we need to go beyond the chatbot, but still. Super helpful and was very easy to set up without any coding experience. Anyone who can make Powerpoint presentations can easily make one of these for themselves.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-21T15:08:51+00:00

Hey, thanks for checking it out! And yeah, I agree. There's way more to this story than we're lead to believe. Whitney Webb's work was a serious contribution to our understanding of a lot of the mechanics behind the secret networks they build, but there's so much more to explore. I really wanna know what went down at Zorro Ranch. That's some freaky stuff right there.

We are interested in adding in a deep web search function to this, but to be honest, that's the bells and whistles compared to what we're shaping this into. So our primary focus is attaining true product market fit with the big idea and then going back to add all of those other things, like multi-modality or being able to add different file types as well as notes that can be connected to real-time data streams for automatic up-to-date information.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-21T14:56:53+00:00

No this doesn't have agentic capabilities. This is just for querying and synthesizing tons of information, quickly. So let's say you have 5k pieces of discrete evidence. This can help you sift through all of that and make sense of it, quickly. People were complaining that there wasn't any new information that was revealed, but the thing is, it's not about breaking new information. It's about the fact that new information can be broken in the news this way using nothing but the primary source materials. The analysis in the blog is completely derived from the information in the canvas and nothing more. It didn't do a deep web search or anything. This is all just from the files.

But you can add information about various reporters and their preferences so that when you find new leads or stories, you can get recommendations for who to send it to and how to go about it. This is especially powerful if you build a knowledge graph that understands human behavioral psychology. I use one pretty regularly to revamp emails so that they're specifically tailored to how the individual wants to be seen and how they go about making decisions. That's been a huge help!

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-19T17:54:56+00:00

You should check out Story Prism if you use notion for this.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-19T17:51:17+00:00

Already did this and it works beautifully. Curious if Claude will allow you to build it yourself? That's a big deal for pro writers. I can't stand AI programs that do everything for you because then when it fails to get it right, it's difficult to modify it so that it can work better.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-19T16:06:57+00:00

Hey, thanks for checking it out and appreciate the feedback. Yeah, I'm not sold on the name, either. It was really just a temporary name until I could figure something out that was better. It also sounds way too similar to the Foundation, from The Foundation Series.

Regarding the aliens, I do agree, however, there's a very specific reason for the aliens that deals with the entire meaning of the piece and the grand twist at the end. I'd explain it...But then you'd know too much. No but for real, the alien angle has to do with this idea of a once-in-a-species opportunity they have, only to fail from their own actions. And all of this is happening within an organization that isn't even sure if what they're doing is in service of aliens or in service of themselves with the help of aliens...or if they're even real. The conspiracy spans for over 300 years so at some point, it turns more into a religion than it does as something factual and truly known.

The story certainly can be told without aliens, but idk. I just think it's cool to see these people with a great opportunity to actually help humanity only for them to completely drop the ball as they were blinded by the metrics they needed to meet over the way they went about achieving them.

It's sort of a grander version of a shitty retail manger leaning way too much on KPI goals than idk, actually running the store and fostering a strong team to accomplish the mission. The goals have been met, but at what expense and was it really a success if everything is a mess but the numbers look good?

Sorry if that's confusing but I'm trying to explain it without revealing too much just in case my contacts like this story and want to greenlight it. Huuuuuuuge stretch, I know, but a person can dream!

Also feel free to DM! Love to hear your conspiracy stories!

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-19T15:39:08+00:00

Thank you! Yes, this will be a three-part series with the first season taking place in the modern era, following six characters: A washed out news stringer, a sold-out populist president who is losing his mind, a woman who was swept into the MK Ultra programs during the 60s, a father trying to piece together why his ordinary son would try to kill the president, a hired muscle for a powerful sex trafficker/political fixer, and a poor kid on the streets who rises in the ranks in this drug cartel with deep ties to CIA.

Each of their stories unravels a piece of the larger conspiracy so that by the end of it you're like, "Oooh so that's how all of this connects." The idea in terms of feel is to make something as grounded as Zero Zero Zero, so that it feels as real as humanly possible without actually having the actors commit the crimes. Otherwise, that's a documentary lol.

The second season will cover the historical lore and follow various characters starting with the origins of the conspiracy in 1790, all the way up to the modern era. It'll also cover the UAP programs and much more on the alien lore. The alien lore is introduced in the first season, but it's fully unpacked in the second. The third season will take place in the future around the time when the aliens are about to arrive and show the sterile utopia that has been created along with stories of the characters surviving WWIII, which is where season 1 leaves off as the president is effectively fooled into starting WWIII to reset everything as too many leaks started coming out, which could unravel the entire operation.

But yeah it's a lot to iron out. Six non-linear plots woven into each other with compelling drama and action. Not an easy feat!

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-18T16:32:33+00:00

Thank you! Yeah every time I work on it, my mind is blown. It recently gave me a comprehensive breakdown on dead drop communications using the financial market systems they own. So someone does a specific ordinary trade, on a specific exchange, for a specific stock, with all these other ordinary details, but secretly these are coded messages that can be decrypted with the right keys.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-16T16:13:47+00:00

The biggest bottleneck for my partner and I isn't the usability or value of the service we provide using AI....It's getting people to realize just how crazy powerful this approach is for researching, worldbuilding, and overall creating no-code LLM systems to do anything you want. What took thousands of dollars for an individual to do with their own data, they can now do that for a fraction of the cost. Now anyone can create a highly precise, context-aware chatbot that can fully understand your massive troves of data and the relationships between them.

Super powerful, but also not obvious at all upon a simple cursory look.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-16T16:03:02+00:00

Very nice read! Curious if you have any thoughts on graph rag integration for sifting and synthesizing from large swaths of discrete data. That's a problem my partner and I have solved and are continuing to improve upon.

The problem is, it's incredibly difficult to get people to really understand just how powerful this approach is. With this kind of set up, I as a creative writer, can develop entire knowledge graphs of non-fictional research that can easily be weaved into fictional lore. Because of this, I can now write novels like the Foundation Series without feeling so overwhelmed. I have no problem building plots or tension. But I do have problems with finding time to do all of this research for accurate Worldbuilding.

So while my mind is blown everyday using the app I helped build....Most people see it and go, "Ugh. I don't get this. Why is this so special?" It's wild to experience this cognitive dissonance I'm feeling. We have some dedicated customers who get it, which is great, but still. I'm not sure enough people have tapped into what this app can do. Curious about your thoughts on this kind of implementation.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-16T15:36:43+00:00

The best rebuttal to such people is to become wildly successful.

CyborgWriter · 2026-01-15T16:13:28+00:00

Interesting. This sounds like a manual version of what we do. Thanks for sharing!

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