Why is there so little GenAI content if I use the small web filter?

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The difference seems really stark. HN’s front page seems to be 15-20% GenAI related content, but the small web version at 5% or so.

Is it an artifact of Kagi’s small web list generation, or are many stories being pushed by the “big web”?

I'd hypothesise that people doing small web kind of blogs just don't find GenAI interesting. They're doing things instead of trying to make LLMs do things.

I think that's a good hypothesis. Also, the main thing that sites are using genAI for is to reduce the cost of production. Small sites are more usually labors of love, where cost of production isn't really a very important factor.

Thank goodness for the small web, and hopefully it still stays relatively slop-free.

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