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Are you what you publish on the internet, or does your output just reflect the REAL you?
Are you what you publish on the internet, or does your output just reflect the REAL you?
You Don’t Own Your Content on the Internet. You Never Have.
Interesting article by Preslav Rachev.
I’ve never really emotionally or financially attached myself to anything I’ve created for the Internet.
Suffering comes from clinging to the ephemeral ... Buddha
https://preslav.me/2024/05/21/you-dont-own-your-content/
You see, fighting in this game is futile; you have to be clever instead. Today, it’s an automated stochastic parrot that an online behemoth trained on your blog posts and YouTube videos. ...
The point is that content ownership doesn’t matter on the Internet. Never has. Never will. You fire, forget, and move on. Sometimes, you strike gold; often, you don’t. Sometimes, you become famous on someone else’s platform, and then they close it along with all your work. Sometimes, you put your own site after months of sweating on it, and no one ever sees or hears of it again.
Rather than emotionally attaching yourself to the things you create, focus on developing the only brand you have control over - yourself. Your work is getting your foot at the door, but the rest is all you. In mid-2024, a decent LLM can recreate your entire life’s worth of content without having been trained on it. I know it sounds harsh, but it’s true. I mean, no offense, but we aren’t exactly producing rocket science out there. What an LLM can’t do is be you. It can’t live your life with all of its beauty and hardships. It won’t build the relationships you will. It won’t hold your first-born child for you. It won’t feel the feelings you have for others and those they have for you.
That’s right - instead of defining yourselves with your work, focus on building relationships and getting people to know you because of you. Be your own Company of One. The rest is adapting to the tune of the time - 25 years ago, it was search engines; 15 years ago, it was social media; today, it’s AI, and tomorrow, it will be something else. Whatever it may be, don’t sweat it, but be your best self and just live your life.
The point is that content ownership doesn’t matter on the Internet. Never has. Never will. You fire, forget, and move on. Sometimes, you strike gold; often, you don’t. Sometimes, you become famous on someone else’s platform, and then they close it along with all your work. Sometimes, you put your own site after months of sweating on it, and no one ever sees or hears of it again.
Rather than emotionally attaching yourself to the things you create, focus on developing the only brand you have control over - yourself. Your work is getting your foot at the door, but the rest is all you. In mid-2024, a decent LLM can recreate your entire life’s worth of content without having been trained on it. I know it sounds harsh, but it’s true. I mean, no offense, but we aren’t exactly producing rocket science out there. What an LLM can’t do is be you. It can’t live your life with all of its beauty and hardships. It won’t build the relationships you will. It won’t hold your first-born child for you. It won’t feel the feelings you have for others and those they have for you.
That’s right - instead of defining yourselves with your work, focus on building relationships and getting people to know you because of you. Be your own Company of One. The rest is adapting to the tune of the time - 25 years ago, it was search engines; 15 years ago, it was social media; today, it’s AI, and tomorrow, it will be something else. Whatever it may be, don’t sweat it, but be your best self and just live your life.
There's a lot I could say about this, but that's for upcoming posts.