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This. And for example, that is why I'm just using ChatGPT to get recipes to cook; it is so much better, right to the point, no ads, follow-up questions, etc. I know the moral argument about ChatGPT being trained and monetizing other people's work, but it is just so easy and has better UX.

And regarding "The way forward is to go where your audience is being influenced," that this marketer says, for my case and the his “best rice to make risotto.” case, they can't do SEO on ChatGPT (at least for now). ChatGPT doesn't even show/link to sources like Gemini; they are screwed.

This process of

1. Scrap content.

2. Train/mix.

3. Show new mixed content without sources.

is a nightmare for them.

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I have lots of recipe books. An entire (small) bookshelf of them, the most recently purchased one was probably at least 10 years ago. Since then I've just been looking up recipes online because it was more convenient. Now, however, I find that I'm getting off my ass to go look through a book because I'm so irritated with online recipes.

I don't need your family history, or how excited you are to make this, or why it has that "special importance" to you, or whatever you wrote to get more clicks. I really don't need to scroll through pages of irrelevant ads or dismiss 10 autoplaying videos just because it's been a while and I forgot how wet a pita recipe should be.

I just want to read the fscking recipe!

And that is where paper books excel! And the funny thing, is I like reading the recipe intros there, or the sidebar 400 year-old original version of the recipe because it's interesting, and not just another attempt at eking some micro amount of ad revenue from me.

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And yet, if a recipe site did just tell you the recipe, you wouldn't use that site, because you'd never find it, because it wouldn't be on Google.

> I'm just using ChatGPT to get recipes to cook

Pretty brave. How's that rock soup going?