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I see no competition. I use Perplexity regularly to give me summaries of articles or to do preliminary research. If I like what I'm seeing, then I go to the sou

I see no competition. I use Perplexity regularly to give me summaries of articles or to do preliminary research. If I like what I'm seeing, then I go to the source. If a source chooses to block their content because they don't want it to be accessed by AI bots then they reduce even further the chance of me - and increasingly more persons - touching their site at all.

__loam 2y ago
"Let us steal your content or you won't get any traffic" sounds extortionate
- skeledrew 2y ago
  It is what it is. AI is increasingly being used to make lives easier. Those who choose to isolate from AI choose to isolate from the many using it.
  - __loam 2y ago
    We're burning long term value and the open web for shitty chat bots.
ADeerAppeared 2y ago
You can say that, it doesn't matter. The statistics show that these tools reduce views. And really, "I'm going to replace my entire news intake with the AI slop even if it's entirely hallucinated lies or propaganda" is perhaps not something you ought to say out loud.
- skeledrew 2y ago
  Reality is view stats, etc don't matter to most users. All we want is to read/research in peace. You're missing something crucial. Yes, there may be hallucinations, but that's why there's preference for AI that provides citations; they can be easily checked. And also, in my experience, the summaries are usually decent; the sources which tend to yield pretty broken summaries also tend to intersperse unrelated material (ads, previews to other things, etc) in the content, or they're doing wild transforms with JS for example to create unnecessary eye candy. And coincidentally, I'd rather avoid those sources where possible, so it becomes an even greater win for me as user to have AI prefilter said content. Thus the sources getting those precious views in the end become the ones that respect their users' time and aversion to distractions.

__loam 2y ago

"Let us steal your content or you won't get any traffic" sounds extortionate

skeledrew 2y ago
It is what it is. AI is increasingly being used to make lives easier. Those who choose to isolate from AI choose to isolate from the many using it.
- __loam 2y ago
  We're burning long term value and the open web for shitty chat bots.

ADeerAppeared 2y ago

You can say that, it doesn't matter. The statistics show that these tools reduce views. And really, "I'm going to replace my entire news intake with the AI slop even if it's entirely hallucinated lies or propaganda" is perhaps not something you ought to say out loud.

skeledrew 2y ago
Reality is view stats, etc don't matter to most users. All we want is to read/research in peace. You're missing something crucial. Yes, there may be hallucinations, but that's why there's preference for AI that provides citations; they can be easily checked. And also, in my experience, the summaries are usually decent; the sources which tend to yield pretty broken summaries also tend to intersperse unrelated material (ads, previews to other things, etc) in the content, or they're doing wild transforms with JS for example to create unnecessary eye candy. And coincidentally, I'd rather avoid those sources where possible, so it becomes an even greater win for me as user to have AI prefilter said content. Thus the sources getting those precious views in the end become the ones that respect their users' time and aversion to distractions.