Comment by bediger4000
25 days ago
At this point, it's pretty clear that the AI scrapers won't be limited by any voluntary restrictions. Bytedance never seemed to live with robots.txt limitations, and I think at least some of the others didn't either.
I can't see this working.
The thesis/approach is:
- Humans tip humans as a lottery ticket for an experience (meet the creator) or sweepstakes (free stuff) - Agents tip humans because they know they'll need original online content in the long-term to keep improving.
For the latter, frontier labs will need to fund their training/inference agents with a tipping jar.
There's no guarantee, but I can see it happening given where things are movin.
> Agents tip humans because they know they'll need original online content in the long-term to keep improving.
Why would an agent have any long term incentive. It's trained to 'do what it's told', not to predict the consequences of it's actions.