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VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I feel like a guide site is very likely to get scraped up by AI. People just typing in “How to repair buildings in Worshippers of Cthulhu” and getting their answer without ever knowing who wrote it out originally. I hope the best for them. I think it’s a cool endeavor.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Not even just AI. Fandom’s entire wiki empire is largely built around manually stealing the work of guides writers and reproducing it verbatim. It is why you’ll find so many fake roads and the like.
I am incredibly skeptical of this being viable monetarily. But the idea of people actively choosing to support a site that has known good guides and emphasizing the “tip jar” mindset? I have seen worse business models. And if they really focus on what the community/they want to make guides for rather than just chasing the latest big releases, that actually reduces the odds of other companies scraping them.
For example, the right crowd would straight up kill for a breakdown of what is actually needed to unlock whatever in Kynseed in the post release version (rather than EA). Fandom actually have a kynseed wiki but it is abandoned and the other guide sites don’t give a shit about a moderately successful Stardew that “came out” in early 2024 (?). So even though stealing that would be trivial… odds are nobody would care enough to do so.