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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • This has been tried before many times. The problem is that this exchange can never satisfy all of the parties.

    Would site host take 0.01$ for a page? If its Walmart.com then they’d happily lose even 0.10$ or more if competitors can’t analyze their products and other perceived IP damages.

    For example, let’s assume they do the business math and come out that if it is anything below 5$ is a no deal - what scraper would pay 5$ for a single product page scrape? Maybe openAI can pay that but is this what we want where public scraping is only accessible to billionaires? What if you’re just a user that wants to track Walmart price to build your own budgeting script? Are you paying 5$ on every request?

    Now for creative content like blogs etc. it could actually work and micropayments have been holy grail here forever but what more likely to happen is that free content will outcompete paid because when LLM asks do you want to read this for free or pay 2$ for this other source 99% of the users will pick free because some unknown source has zero authority in the end user’s eyes to justify this risk.

    What I suspect will happen is similar with what happened with SEO spam rise but it’ll be a but better because LLMs are harder to game than Google. Most content will be free but have injected biases, shilling or other promotions or agendas to subsidize the costs. On the other hand a lot of content will remain high quality and free as a legitimate source for authority signaling within relevant industries which is already a big thing.

    Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk