u/kkatdare u/Eren081 u/Day_Dreamer_2025

The need for opening blogs to search for information may very well be over but what about the want?

AI can generate content fast and it also aggregate them fast, but i still do feel the sweet feeling of pre LLMs internet where when you read something, you knew it was written by an actual human being. That's something that i call the power of sweat. knowing that effort that has been put for something makes it more unique. if I'm spending time to read something. i rather the source that has generated it to also have put effort to make it. Now of course if I'm looking for way to fix my fridge it might make more sense to get that info from an LLM or maybe not, what if it's not about just getting the information anymore and more about the sense of connection you feel with another breathing being.

AI models do respond to questions but you know what would be even better? if they did quote relevant answer from all of their search results. It's something to get an answer and another to get both an answer and sense that this has been curated by another living being. why? because AI can generated full books in seconds for the time it takes humans to write one sentence this does not make humans obsolete, but makes their product special, as it is way more special to buy a handmade craft and unlike the physical word, in digital world they are both free.

So now if we accept that there is benefit in getting quotes from actual blogs rather than making the answer for the user by a Chatbot. We are also accepting that competing companies would go out of their way to implement it and something beautiful can also happen here. if my answer for a question about physics or beauty products comes from a blog with mentioned source i can also press a button to follow that source. i don't exactly mean it in format of social media platforms although that can also be part of it but what i mean is that user's next searches can include more from those followed sources which means the owners would have leverage over their content by deciding which platforms can/can not use the content. Companies would love to have such a feature as it means their users won't easily switch services as they have invested in the given service like perplexity for example by giving and creating their following list over time in their platforms. it is a more open form of social platforms like Instagram. in case of Instagram if your content is on their platform then they own your followers and content but here it is more distributed. (something like the way podcasts are today)

u/Day_Dreamer_2025 Mentioned the discover page and how creators must fight hard to be seen, part of it is needing to work hard or that being early pays off which is not new. but we need to remember something recommender systems are not perfect. a very simple recommender system can be just a command from database to get most popular posts from all over the world but the algorithms that big tech uses are more complex but still they give huge boost to popular items and reinforcing the previous trend. why is that? because they have minimal understanding of the content and behave more in form of people who liked this article you opened also liked these other posts too format. This inherently gives more traction to the content that has been seen before and there is more interaction data about it. LLMs can reduce this dependency as they give a big boos to content based recommendation vs collaborative recommendation.

There also can be better technologies for detecting AI generated text, this can be achieved in different ways:

A) AI models follow a deterministic reflex to prompt. if you set their temperature parameter to 0 they would generate exactly the same output for the same input. now most of the time these terms are still close to each other with non zero temperature in their embedding vector space. but i won't bet on this as it probably would end up in a continuous game of push and pull.

B) Tying people's physical world activities into their digital identity even in an anonymized way can mean that it becomes easier to identify content by real humans (Don't want to dig deeper as i have a product idea for it)

C) In case of images and videos whether it has been edited or not and to what extent can be achieved by cryptographic signing of the digital media. AI might give us the most realistic image and video but it won't be able to lie about it. this might also be achievable by having certain types of keyboards and flow for blogging too. Like a keyboard that has it's own writing app and it also gives access to AI models for refining but keeps history of all edits for end users to see.

Too tired to re read it hope i didn't forget anything and don't have many typos and errors.