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Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by _verandaguy »

gwerbin wrote: post #28
_verandaguy wrote: post #17

Conspicuously missing: why should I care? I have reduced my online presence to much less than it once was partly because I don't want to feed this machine training data that I've worked hard to make for a human audience.

Like it or not I think "agents browsing the web" is the inevitable near-term future. Some agents will be malicious, many will not. In 2036, HN posters will be complaining about how such-and-such site only works with closed proprietary AI agents, and how their creaky old Mac M5 running Gemma 3 under Ollama can't browse the site properly because it doesn't follow the 2029 RFC XYZ for agent compatibility that nobody eve…

This still doesn't really answer my question, though. This is like telling me my old blog posts can't be parsed by your regex.

Like... yeah, no shit; I didn't build it for your regex. It's not the target audience.

Plus, isn't the appeal of LLMs broadly that they can do somewhat-useful things with mostly-arbitrary input (if you ignore the risk of prompt injection)?

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by c7b »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #70
c7b wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is an agent-ready website so obvious poison? If I'm running a plumber shop in East London, then I'd want agents to know that just as much as I want Google (Search) to know that. The same will be true for most real-world businesses. Only sites that make money by selling their users' data and eyeballs obviously stand to suffer.

Or the website of someone who makes things for people to see, or art for people to consume, and would prefer to avoid being automatically plagiarized as much as possible. It's not always about business.

Ok, forgive my snark. But I think the point stands that for a lot of sites being found by agents is just another form of SEO.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by fragmede »

Or it's a psyop to see which IP owns which website. Datamining this at scale, you come across isitagentready.com, chances are, you're going to plug in your own website(s) into it, so now cloudflare has a mapping of IP to website owner. If you used your home wifi, glue that info to your google/meta ad profile, and then Cloudflare also knows what's up.

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by zb3 »

leros wrote: post #35

I don't want my site to be agent ready. I'd prefer people visit my site so that I can make revenue than have an AI scrape my content and answer the question for someone else. I've redesigned my site to have enough content so that AI knows what I have but they have to send the user to my site to use an interactive JavaScript widget to get the final answer they need. So far so good, but not sure how long that will work…

Oh, I've finally found one of those enshittifiers of the internet, hi there, it's the first time I can ask some questions directly..

So:

- are you certain this "revenue" doesn't come from ads promoting scams? or you simply don't care?

- what do you think about LLMs "licensing" the content so you get royalties instead of putting these artificial obstacles?

Re: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents

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Post by jjgreen »

dwb wrote: post #52
fnoef wrote: post #6

Agent ready, agent email, agent development, agent agent agent What’s the F is going on? Is the world gone mad or something?

I can live with "agent", but "agentic" still sets my teeth on edge.

I flag any submission with "agentic" in the title, calms the teeth a little.
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