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That's not how AI works though. You can't feed data into an AI in a way that affects the answers other people get. It's not learning anything in real-time like that.
If you want to "feed data" into an AI system all you can really do is publish that data publicly and wait for it to be scraped up into their training data.
Edit: I'll admit that I overlooked the fact they do add conversations to training data but a single user is going to be weighted VERY low. Especially if their data looks like an outlier.
Seems pretty unlikely to me that you could really influence the model in a meaningful way like that.
Better off focusing on public/authoritative data that will get weighted a lot heavier.
That is how AI works.
Most AI... Gosh, I'm not sure what to call it here, models, agents, tools? Whatever, most AI things nowadays don't just rely on their dataset, they can also make queries out to the web. So, yes, making sure AI tools can easily get answers from your website is a real thing companies need to be aware of. Because the reality we live in now is that most people's search engines have an AI Summary at the top, and that's all most people are going to look at. Most people were already stopping at the first search result prior to this.
It has a term I think? AIO maybe? I don't remember. Basically like SEO but for AI.
I looked it up real quick. I hate the name of the term. It's AEO "answer engine optimization" fuck that, we're fucked
Edit: I guess the word answer doesn't necessarily mean CORRECT answer, but to me it leans that way. I think response may have been a better word to use there
REO was already taken by Speed Wagon, sadly.
SES (Slop Engine Sloptimization)
The frustrating thing is that it's not sloptimizing, it's just the meta that search engines have forced people to adhere to if they want to get good results.
To be honest, I don't really know what all it entails. It may or may not require changes that make the site less human friendly. There's one version of it where it actually improves sites. Like if it means using semantic HTML better, then it would make the site more accessible. But it could also mean organizing things differently that are less human friendly. I haven't looked into it enough to judge.
Accurate, perhaps they were referring to SEO and ensuring that web crawlers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or other corporations stumble upon their perspective on things during the collection process for their next training dataset.
But unless you work at one of these LLM companies, you cannot influence an already trained model directly at a macro level. You can only tailor the answers it provides within your own account settings, which does not affect the output for anyone else.
I can’t wait until we unlock custom AI training micro transactions where you can influence what a ChatGPT or Copilot user sees for the low low fee of $15 per KB of supplied data plus $.01 per token referenced.
Actually, most ai companies train on your prompts, so that is how it works. Might not make it in until the next model though.
I'll admit that I overlooked that but a single user is going to be weighted VERY low. Especially if their data looks like an outlier.
Seems pretty unlikely to me that you could really influence the model in a meaningful way like that.
Better off focusing on public/authoritative data that will get weighted a lot heavier.
That's exactly how it works. Likely a custom GPT or a specific custom model. Probably sometime like Palintir providing it. So the climate nonprofit is told to throw their white papers into a void, then lobbyists do the same.