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Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?

by kripy on 2/10/24, 8:58 AM with 13 comments

• by hpeter on 2/10/24, 2:57 PM

  Maybe creators need to write : "This is not allowed for AI to reproduce" in the beginning and then if somebody asks chatgpt to summarize it it could respond with the usual text like : As an AI language model, I am unable to engage with this content...

• by ProllyInfamous on 2/10/24, 4:02 PM

  If some [news] platform invented a way of accepting microtransactions to view each article (instead of subscribing to the entire website, perhaps only to ever view a single article...), I would happily pay.

  Bitcoin would be too expensive/slow to process on-the-fly article pageviews, so perhaps some other altcoin could be utilized (browser plugin?) to allow each IP to view for a set duration [1 hour?].

  Seems like a way to monetize a service like archive.is &c, and form partnerships with news organizations [instead of ongoing cat-and-mouse hostilities].

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  Until then, I'll happily add Arc Search to my repertoire. $$$ I'm not signing up for your entire newspaper, folks.

• by fuzzfactor on 2/10/24, 4:36 PM

  >Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?

  Under the olde model, it would be the cigar company that made the money.

  Every morning in places across Cuba, the cigar rollers would carry on their work, keeping their hands busy while the team orator read the newspaper aloud to them during the day.

  Probably the most intelligent ad blocking yet seen goes back to the '50's.

  The 1750's at least, maybe even 1550's.

• by _dujt on 2/10/24, 11:21 AM

  I’m sure this type of thing absolutely scares Engadget who has been putting out ai-like article spam even before generative AI was released.

  Call it cynical but these publishers are getting what they deserve. People stopped caring to sift through their content a long time ago.

• by rpgbr on 2/10/24, 10:23 AM

  Does anyone know how to block Arc's crawler/Browse For Me from accessing a website?