Blogging

I appear to be building a content farm. That is not how I described ActuallyRandom.com when I bought the domain. I called it an outlet for the ideas that bounce around my ADHD brain, a place to experiment with AI-generated writing, SEO, advertising and affiliate links. It sounds friendlier when I put it that way. Still, the basic plan is to publish articles, attract people from search engines and eventually make a little money from their visits. That is close enough to a content farm that pretending otherwise would be silly. ...

I have been using ChatGPT since December 2022. Every question I asked it is sitting in an export on my home server. That is three years of me being curious about things, in writing, timestamped. Some of those questions must be questions other people are asking Google. The interesting problem is working out which ones, without paying for an SEO tool. The corpus The export normalizes to 2,286 markdown files, one per conversation, at about 27 MB. Titles are generated by ChatGPT, so they are labels rather than questions. The actual question I typed is the first **user:** block in each file. ...

I use AI to help write ActuallyRandom.com. Quite a lot, in fact. I am not ashamed of this. The whole point of the site is to give me somewhere to put random ideas and experiment with AI, SEO, ads and whatever else catches my attention. The bat article began with something my wife heard on Russian TikTok. The Adrien Brody article began because she was watching Chapelwaite after we ate Thai food. Those ideas came from us. AI helped me research them and turn them into articles. ...