[latexr]

You completely missed the point. There is a reason I said “possibility and probability”. I don’t think the scenario I described is widespread or effective yet, but it is incredibly naive to believe it won’t happen and that “the agentic web” will be an unambiguous change for the better. You are in the honeymoon period, where bad actors already have bad intentions but aren’t making them blatantly obvious so they can attract more people and make them dependent. If you think they’ll continue the same route without at one point stopping to suck you dry, you haven’t been paying attention to, well, every major tech company ever.

[mvip]

Sure, it's possible. But how is this different than the SEO landscape of the last 15 years? If anything, the bar is higher to succeed here as you need to trick multiple LLM/algos rather than just gamify your Google SEO game.

[latexr]

> But how is this different than the SEO landscape of the last 15 years?

It’s not. That’s the point. Criticising the new thing does not mean you agree with the status quo, that can be bad too.