The "demand" for bottom-of-the-barrel "10 things you didn't know about X" or "a lazy tutorial on how to patch a roof" spam is probably close to being met already.
So if demand stays the same, but the cost to produce it gets even lower, the ecosystem can support more players each pumping out their own version of all the spam sites. Stupid fake number example: Instead of spending $1000 a month to push out 100 articles, you spend $200 a month to push out 100 articles, and now only need to bring in $300 instead of $1100. So now there's another $800 worth of views that others could capture without putting you in the red, while letting them be in the green. So we may just end up with even more blogspam pushing the unique sources down the results list in Google. It's not likely to be meaningfully better based on my experience with "naive" prompting (the people creating these articles aren't going to be tuning their prompts to get good stuff per topic, they'll just get the quick and dirty stuff).
But I don't think that's where it's gonna get fun.
You know where there could be a lot of demand for higher-quality, harder-to-spot spam? Corporate product marketing and politics. Astroturfing in far more writing styles for far less money. Individuals running more fake accounts on Reddit, HN, etc, pushing more "unique"-but-repetitive copies of their views, while sprinkling in a fair bit of on topic info on a wider variety of other topics.
there is no demand. It's just seo spam, and users like me just ctrl+click most of the first page of search results hoping that one of them will be usable. Over time, I'm less and less able to find a single relevant result though. The seo spam is incredible now
I don't think they cared, but they had to have known. If you drop the cost of producing mediocre-to-bad text to ~zero, I think it's pretty obvious that the people with the lowest standards will be the most eager adopters.
So if demand stays the same, but the cost to produce it gets even lower, the ecosystem can support more players each pumping out their own version of all the spam sites. Stupid fake number example: Instead of spending $1000 a month to push out 100 articles, you spend $200 a month to push out 100 articles, and now only need to bring in $300 instead of $1100. So now there's another $800 worth of views that others could capture without putting you in the red, while letting them be in the green. So we may just end up with even more blogspam pushing the unique sources down the results list in Google. It's not likely to be meaningfully better based on my experience with "naive" prompting (the people creating these articles aren't going to be tuning their prompts to get good stuff per topic, they'll just get the quick and dirty stuff).
But I don't think that's where it's gonna get fun.
You know where there could be a lot of demand for higher-quality, harder-to-spot spam? Corporate product marketing and politics. Astroturfing in far more writing styles for far less money. Individuals running more fake accounts on Reddit, HN, etc, pushing more "unique"-but-repetitive copies of their views, while sprinkling in a fair bit of on topic info on a wider variety of other topics.