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The attention economy will never die. Attention will only shift. From websites to aggregators like perplexity.
by baxtr 2y ago
The attention economy will never die. Attention will only shift. From websites to aggregators like perplexity.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoPerplexity isn't playing in the attention economy unless they upsell you, advertise to you, or put any other kind of bullshit between you and your goal. Attention economy is (as the name suggests) about monetizing attention; it does so through friction.
- baxtr 2y agoI didn’t write they would. I said “like”. The next perplexity will show ads. The attention economy will not die. Because it’s hasn’t for the last 100 years. The profits just shift to where the attention is now.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoFair enough, I agree with that. Hell, we may not need a next Perplexity, this one may very well enshittify couple years down the line - as it happens to almost any service offered commercially on the Internet. I was just saying it isn't happening now - for the moment, Perplexity has arguably much better moral standing than most of the websites they scrape or allow users to one-off browse.