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So within a few years, most of the ingested website content will be AI.
Is it inevitable that AI companies are going to have start paying to access human content?
We have the absurd situation where human-made websites are by default blocking AI training bots (see Cloudflare etc), but AI is creating websites solely to be fed to AI training bots. So within a few years, most of the ingested website content will be AI. Is it inevitable that AI companies are going to have start paying to access human content?
We have the absurd situation where human-made websites are by default blocking AI training bots (see Cloudflare etc), but AI is creating websites solely to be fed to AI training bots. So within a few years, most of the ingested website content will be AI. Is it inevitable that AI companies are going to have start paying to access human content?
I find more quality content from youtube videos than website in these days
probably because income, effort and algorithm plays still 'genuine"
We have the absurd situation where human-made websites are by default blocking AI training bots (see Cloudflare etc), but AI is creating websites solely to be fed to AI training bots. So within a few years, most of the ingested website content will be AI. Is it inevitable that AI companies are going to have start paying to access human content?
Oh ho ho, no. Not to the human content creators. They'll lobby, they'll huff and puff and spend billions until the laws get changed in their favor. One day blocking claude scraper might just "suddenly" become illegal. Oh it won't be phrased as such. There will be excuses and misdirections, but the end result will be what the AI overlords desire.
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And it's all because of ads. The incentives in an ad-funded internet are just always going to lead to this sort of thing. The most important thing is getting the user to load your page, not actually satisfying their query. Let's hope the LLM model continues to be paying for credits, because any that move to ad revenue will become useless for real work.
> And it's all because of ads. Not really. A while ago there was a news piece stating that Israel was behind a series of fake think-tanks with very accessible websites which were created with the express purpose of feeding AI agents with alternative facts aligned with their foreign policy. If anyone has the link at hand, please post it.
Let’s please not revive that term, it has done enough harm. From its inception, it has just been a way to make falsehoods sounds legitimate. Even the person who came up with it seemed to be swallowing a whole toad while speaking it for the first time.
Even the title is AI written, show some effort people.
I used one of the 12-month free Perplexity offers when they were everywhere. It felt slightly useful at first for simple queries where I didn’t want to go through the top 10 Google results manually. If I was looking for a specific recipe I remembered or a help page or user manual it would usually find it quickly. Then they started optimizing for speed of responses over quality of results. I can enter a query and see…
For a few months now I have it that it randomly switches to another language for like 1–2 words (most often Japanese) mid sentence. It feels like it got worse at referencing earlier parts of the same convo. For example, I asked it to compare a 9‑year‑old flagship phone chip to the newest model of the smartwatch the same company produces. I used the short version of the phone name (left away the company name since I thought the relation would be obvious enough).
It then asked what I meant by the short version, if I meant the watch of a competitor, if I meant some random vacuum robot, or if I meant something entirely different.
I then said the full phone name and it gave me back a summarization of “Is Phone Name still usable as a daily driver in 2026?” Something I never asked.
I used one of the 12-month free Perplexity offers when they were everywhere. It felt slightly useful at first for simple queries where I didn’t want to go through the top 10 Google results manually. If I was looking for a specific recipe I remembered or a help page or user manual it would usually find it quickly. Then they started optimizing for speed of responses over quality of results. I can enter a query and see…
I got a year of free Perplexity Pro with my Revolut sub. At first I really, really liked it. It felt faster, better, and smarter than (free) ChatGPT. But instead of getting better (or at worst staying at the same level), it seems like it gets worse and worse instead. For a few months now I have it that it randomly switches to another language for like 1–2 words (most often Japanese) mid sentence. It feels like it got…
Same experience here. I think I started using Perplexity for researching stuff before ChatGPT had search and particularly before I had access to Pro mode. Then I experienced the very same thing as you, the Perplexity experience got faster, but also quality degraded a lot, until eventually ChatGPT + search tool + Pro just completely overtook it. Some queries might take 20-30 minutes to fully complete, but then the results are also really good and extensive.
We have the absurd situation where human-made websites are by default blocking AI training bots (see Cloudflare etc), but AI is creating websites solely to be fed to AI training bots. So within a few years, most of the ingested website content will be AI. Is it inevitable that AI companies are going to have start paying to access human content?
Let the garbage-spewing machines choke on their own garbage