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The Slow Bloodred Sunset of the Web as We Knew IT

11 pointsby joshcsimmonsabout 2 months ago

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m3047about 2 months ago
Collect underpants... (LLM).... profit!<p>Using the recipe site cited, the only acknowledgement of profit is &quot;but seriously fuck you if you have that many popup ads&quot;. Mkay...<p>&quot;In 30 days, we launched a robust API &amp; an RSS feed for top products. Within three months, traffic from AI-driven referrals jumped by 200%.&quot; yeah that&#x27;s in the context that &quot;I recently consulted for a mid-sized e-commerce firm&quot;.<p>A recipe site (with ad revenue) vs an ecommerce site: not the same revenue model.<p>Not a peep about sites which are expressly built for humans, or should be built for humans as the primary goal, with &quot;profit&quot; achieved by other means... maybe not profit at all.<p>The thesis that LLMs prefer &#x2F; will prefer APIs is an interesting one, but unproven technically as far as I know as well as unproven as a viable economic model for content publishers.