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"content": "<p>An optimistic thought: these LLM-assisted searches really are getting quite impressive. I've started appending a "?" to almost half of my Kagi queries at this point. I assume that the products that Google, Perplexity, etc. are rolling out are going to be similar. These things are getting much better much faster.</p><p>But they're expensive to run and don't send traffic to websites. Eventually, it seems unlikely that the courts and society as a whole are just going to say "ah screw it; ingest everything and pay content owners nothing." I mean, just look at copyright laws! Content owners are a powerful lobby; Disney essentially wrote the country's copyright law for a half-century!</p><p>So, perhaps we end up in a world where subscription search engines like Kagi end up being the default, and some of the payments are channeled back to sites, content creators, publishers, etc.</p><p>In that world, ads become unnecessary for the web to exist. Certainly, ads will never go away, and plenty of companies will try to jam ads on top of subscription fees. But the point is that we'll have developed a model for the web that doesn't _rely_ on ads, and that seems like a huge win to me.</p><p><a href=\"https://restive.social/tags/llms\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>llms</span></a> <a href=\"https://restive.social/tags/ai\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href=\"https://restive.social/tags/randompredictions\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>randompredictions</span></a></p>",
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