Comment by pu_pe

> The true potential of pay per crawl may emerge in an agentic world. What if an agentic paywall could operate entirely programmatically? Imagine asking your favorite deep research program to help you synthesize the latest cancer research or a legal brief, or just help you find the best restaurant in Soho — and then giving that agent a budget to spend to acquire the best and most relevant content.

So the vision is a paywall around the whole internet. Content aggregators would charge AI companies to provide data relevant to specific queries. Sounds like a nightmare to me.