[j-a-a-p]

My prediction: knowledge will start to be reformatted into an LLM directly and knowledge providers will stop publishing it otherwise. Thus the chat interface will both improve and protect knowledge access once the traditional formats are not published anymore.

This will come together with the downfall of search, a prime driver why so much knowledge was published on the web. Search will start to drown in an explosion of generated AI content, and the case to publish your knowledge for the sake of SEO marketing will diminish.

[christkv]

Back to human curated web directories we go.

[throwuwu]

If you can sell your knowledge to an existing audience and then add a special category with a higher price for companies training LLMs why would you take the financial hit of selling to a single customer where they can now make demands of you as your only source of revenue?

[j-a-a-p]

I don't get your reasoning. First not all knowledge is the source of revenue. Many products and services are supported by know how to implement, use and maintain. This kind of knowledge can benefit from protection.

And if selling knowledge is the main revenue, why would transferring it to an LLM mean losing the opportunity to sell it multiple times? Au contraire.

For any category I assume the owner of the knowledge keeps in control and my case is that a LLM can be beneficial for them.

[kordlessagain]

Models still need to search. Tuning and reference augmented generation go hand in hand.

[j-a-a-p]

Indeed, but search exist for humans. And if search becomes unusable because the web gets filled with AI noise, humans will stop using search.

And also for models, to feed them with data generated by AI seems like an issue to me.