It is sad and interesting that the thousands (millions?) of blogs with few/zero readers will ultimately end up as a dot inside an LLM. Serving a wide audience just not in the original form, and without success/credit for the original author.
― Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing
“… and now its Sam Altman’s reward too!”
― Jayden Milne (2025). “About”, https://jayd.ml/about
I'm tempted to not publish my blog. Write it for myself, and send it as a portfolio when applying for jobs. So that those damn LLMs don't benefit from it.
What when it goes into GMail, Office 365, or some SaaS email filtering system or some SaaS email archiving or SaaS email backup system?
I think this is underappreciated by almost all writers. You should be doing something very differently with your life if you assume that as opposed to a generation earlier or even five years ago, most of the direct effects of writing will be by people who actually read what you wrote.
And you have the opportunity, a near certainty that most "people" who read what you write in the future are not going to be humans. But humans will interact with what you write with an indirection layer in the middle.
from: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/understanding...
I wonder - what is the path toward LLMs keeping around material that has since been removed from the internet? Do the companies building them keep the scraped content around forever?