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> For informational content, like Wikipedia, TripAdvisor, Yelp, recipe websites... perhaps this will end up looking something like the journalism industry that
by carlosjobim 2y ago
> For informational content, like Wikipedia, TripAdvisor, Yelp, recipe websites... perhaps this will end up looking something like the journalism industry that aggregate and publish the information to AI companies, so they can avoid freeloading by agents.
Why publish it to AI companies? The Internet is ripe for mass syndication of textual content and putting it behind subscriptions, just as YouTube has done with video content. Syndication was the distribution and business model for this content before the WWW, the advantage we can get now is no barrier to entry and no distribution costs. (Hosting costs are so low to not even count for text).
At the same time we also get rid of the ad-ridden, scam-infest, bot-crawling Internet of the current day.
Said I, on an open forum where nobody pays a dime...