Is paying for intellecutal drudge labour worth it in the age of AI...?

One thing that's occurred to me in relation to my main blog is the possibility of paying someone else to do all of the drudge updating labour, all of the stuff that needs doing manually for SEO purposes such as:

• updating material so it's got all the relevant up to date stats, ideally wants doing on certain posts every year.
• dealing with the 404s and 403s that come up.
• modifying URLs and managing redirects.
• tweaking existing posts meta data and headings.
• swapping up linking
• even video creation.

I mean I could go on!

What's put me off this until now is not wanting to hand over my passwords to some rando working online.

What's stopping me now is the thought that WHOEVER I pay is probably now just going to chuck whatever work I give them into whatever AI tool they use on the regular and get it to do the work.

The thing is I am MUCH BETTER PLACED to make judgement calls about the right nuances of key word and phraseology in my specific subject niche!

I have been using chat gpt to do some updates, and some suggestions I simply veto as I know they are not appropriate, someone else doing this may not have the subject specific insight I do.

On co-creation....

So I'm quite happy using AI to co-create, but just like with Wikipedia one needs some background knowledge to be able to judge how good the AI generated material is - for the most part, say 70% AI has made suggestions that intuitively feel right, but the errors are large enough for me to want to be in control of it.

I can't see any point in paying someone to be the middle man - pasting stuff into AI and producing a report for me is inefficient, letting them loose on my blog is too much of a risk.

Especially when there are specialist SEO tools for blogs - such as Rank Math and Ahrefs and a shed load of others.

As a final thought I think I'm gonna do the manual labour myself, I just feel that being hands on with it is going to return me more value!

It's an interesting one - maybe AI is going to polarise... it's empowering me (maybe!) but it's certainly I think gonna put a lot of middle-monkeys out of business, I can't be the only one thinking like this...?!?

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