[seanhunter]

You're right this is a huge shift and unless the balance of power shifts users will get screwed over. If you think (as some people do) that one of the primary methods of consumption of information is going to be to have stuff tailored for purpose first by some sort of model, then it stands to reason that lots of the existing "attention monetization" mechanisms just won't work.

Imagine a future where you can just store a reoccuring prompt along the lines of: Hey Jarvis, search and give me a summary of the top things from the last 12 hours in all the topics and sites I'm interested in. Make its length about 5 mins of my reading speed. I'll prompt you for more details if I want to go deeper on any one thing.

That seems like the sort of thing that would be pretty compelling. So it follows logically from that that people have to figure out some sort of licensing or new revenue model to replace the fact that people are going to be reading LLM outputs like that rather than viewing ads on your current webpage.