• FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    This was already true years ago after search engines became a thing. The main answers that come to mind for your question are:

    • providing novel information that wasn’t online before.
    • providing information to you that you wouldn’t have thought to ask for on your own.

    Both of these remain valid and useful reasons for going to a web site even if that web site’s content is AI generated.

    There’s also the matter that “AI generated” is a very broad term. Did someone merely turn an AI loose with a vague instruction to generate some pap to fill a page out with? Or did someone actually provide it with a subject and some information to write about and give the resulting article a read-through to ensure it was good? Did they write a rough draft and just have the AI do the polishing? There’s lots of approaches here, some of them much better than others.