"In response to these trends, publishers will be putting more effort this year into building relationships with AI platforms [...] such as ChatGPT and Perplexity, both of which have been courting high-quality content in return for citations and/or money."<p>SEO there, SEO here.<p>A little backtrack: media paywalls are supposedly increasing (or have already done so):<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43923952">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43923952</a><p>And citations are frequently hallucinated:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818313">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818313</a><p>And now it seems they can be also bought. A prediction might be that soon enough these have even less resemble with the actual learning materials. Another might be that also sloppers will engage with the citation gaming.