The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape(pcloadletter.dev) |
The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape(pcloadletter.dev) |
We have lived through some trends. Cloud computing, web30, metaverse, nft. Not all were bad, not all were transformative.
Since chatbots will kill google search as we know it, this time it is for real. Everyone will try to get slice of that pie.
One more thing is that some companies provide pages so vague, that you literally cannot understand what stand behind buzzwords. "We enhance future with AI", "we transform your business with AI". Corporate mumbo-jumbo. These page descriptions are written for the people who are tech illiterate. Effectively these sites are para-sites ;-)
My vision of such browser extension was; let's say I stumble upon some random website and I want to know what this website is all about, ChatGPT can summarize a website for me. I already tried prompting ChatGPT to summarize me some random websites and it gave me pretty good responses. Or I stumble upon some long article but I'm in hurry, I would want such article to be summarized for me, again ChatGPT can do it. Or I looked up and found some long podcast or interview on YouTube, this now can be summarized by Google's Gemini better than ChatGPT.
I was thinking about making such extension but for me personally it would be a lot of work for not so much financially viable idea but I would like to have such extension and pay for it.
- https://worldsim.nousresearch.com/browser
Both of those use Claude by the way, because Claude models are way more creative than GPT-3.5/4/4T/4O.
Generally speaking though, “prompt engineering” does not add sufficient value to merit a product in and of itself. No prompt is going to make a killer app. ChatGPT already is the killer app.
that's not why. You can't copyright a "mere list of ingredients", but you can copyright a recipe in total, which is headnotes, general instructions, method, and any accompanying media.
Put another way, if you want to ensure that people don't (legally) clone your recipe blog, you must do the performative writing.
Second, it's hard to find good AGPL'd projects with communities. Most projects are building an open core enshittware model around MIT or Apache.
I think someone is going to need to write and open source AI Manifesto that speaks out against this low novelty open-washing strategy.
Seriously weird stuff, considering its not about people.
Anyhow the main point is that recipe sites being the way they are has nothing to do with SEO, it's the "generally accepted practice" of protecting your work.