Comment by oblio

3 days ago

> The one thing I've found AI is good at is parsing through the hundreds of ad ridden, barely usable websites for answers to my questions.

One thing I can guarantee you is that this won't last. No sane MBA will ignore that revenue stream.

Image hosting services, all over again.

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foxyv  3 days ago

You are entirely correct. The enshittification will continue. All we can do is enjoy these things while they are still usable.

  • benatkin  3 days ago

    Nope, this only applies to a small percent of content, where a relatively small number of people needs access to it and the incentive to create derivative work based on it is low, or where there's a huge amount of content that's frequently changing (think airfares). But yes, they will protect it more.

    For content that doesn't change frequently and is used by a lot of people it will be hard to control access to it or derivative works based on it.

    • baggachipz  2 days ago

      I don't think you're considering the enshittification route here. I'm sure it will be: Ask ChatGPT a question -> "While I'm thinking, here's something from our sponsor which is tailored to your question" -> lame answer which requires you to ask another question. And on and on. While you're asking these questions, a profile of you is built and sold on the market.

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o11c  2 days ago

The difference, of course, is that most AI companies don't have the malicious motive that Google has by also being an ad company.