Is paying for intellecutal drudge labour worth it in the age of AI...?
One thing that's occurred to me in relation to my main blog is the possibility of paying someone else to do all of the drudge updating labour, all of the stuff that needs doing manually for SEO purposes such as:
- updating material so it's got all the relevant up to date stats, ideally wants doing on certain posts every year.
- dealing with the 404s and 403s that come up.
- modifying URLs and managing redirects.
- tweaking existing posts meta data and headings.
- swapping up linking
- even video creation.
I mean I could go on!
What's put me off this until now is not wanting to hand over my passwords to some rando working online.
What's stopping me now is the thought that WHOEVER I pay is probably now just going to chuck whatever work I give them into whatever AI tool they use on the regular and get it to do the work.
The thing is I am MUCH BETTER PLACED to make judgement calls about the right nuances of key word and phraseology in my specific subject niche!
I have been using chat gpt to do some updates, and some suggestions I simply veto as I know they are not appropriate, someone else doing this may not have the subject specific insight I do.
On co-creation....
So I'm quite happy using AI to co-create, but just like with Wikipedia one needs some background knowledge to be able to judge how good the AI generated material is - for the most part, say 70% AI has made suggestions that intuitively feel right, but the errors are large enough for me to want to be in control of it.
I can't see any point in paying someone to be the middle man - pasting stuff into AI and producing a report for me is inefficient, letting them loose on my blog is too much of a risk.
Especially when there are specialist SEO tools for blogs - such as Rank Math and Ahrefs and a shed load of others.
As a final thought I think I'm gonna do the manual labour myself, I just feel that being hands on with it is going to return me more value!
It's an interesting one - maybe AI is going to polarise... it's empowering me (maybe!) but it's certainly I think gonna put a lot of middle-monkeys out of business, I can't be the only one thinking like this...?!?
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Perhaps hybrid approach could save labour and time...
Yes I think knowing what you're paying for is essential!
It's all about exploring opportunities
I'm finding ChatGPT quite useful but you definitely have to be on top of what you're doing. It makes simple mistakes, gets the wrong end of the stick and has no sense of context or, as you say, nuance.
But I'm not sure that anyone is doing these jobs anyway? They're a grind. I think there are quite a lot of things that we don't bother with because they are such a grind and what benefit will the work bring - lots or not much really?
Have a look on FIVR or a similar site, there's plenty of people punting!
That's interesting, so Fivrr estimated to have approximately £24 million pa worth of business in UK, has about 10% market share of the gig economy which makes up about 1.4% of total UK employment. 70% of sellers make less than than £80 a month, 96% less than £400 a month.
Challenges about quality of work, opacity of algorithms that prohibit sellers working out how to improve their business, concerns about worker protections and from UK regulatory bodies about whether sellers are self-employed - I guess big tax implications there around NI employer contributions.
Fivrr takes 20% commission on earnings!
It reminds me of earlier multi level marketing schemes, including book clubs, where most of the workers earned less than the minimum wage.
I guess the main reason we don't get this work done is because we don't have the money! But if we did, I think there would be concerns about the values underpinning the work as well as all the cons that you raise.
Ah I never looked that closely I just know of it - sounds like a bit of a bad place to use!
Are these tools reliable to let them do it all? I know they can make stuff up. I don't use it much, but I know it will improve. It seems many are using it instead of employing an actual person and that means a shift in employment. Interesting times...
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What you would spend on an employee you could spend on AI tools. And some AI tools can use your existing body of work as a resource and template to provide results closer to your needs and style.