[skeledrew]

> Perplexity's value proposition appears to be "we're going to take the stuff off your website, and present it to our users. We're not going to show them your ads, we're not going to offer them your premium services or referrals to other products, we're going to strip out the value from your content and take it for our users".

This, exactly this is a primary reason why I use Perplexity. I want the valued content, without the unnecessary distractions that I'll never consciously touch anyway (there have been accidental clicks now and then, because some site designers really want people to click that ad and go all out to embed it into the content, and it only leads to great annoyance and sometimes a promise never to visit that site again).

[Traster]

Yes and the result will be one of two options: option a (more likely) the underlying sites will literally just disappear, their business model no longer works and the content that you want (but apparently not enough to respect the authors) will cease to exist. It will most likely be replaced with AI slop replicas of the content you wanted. Or option b (much less likely) the content you want will move behind premium services where AI companies will have to negotiate subscriptions you will have entered the cable TV bundle era of the internet.

[skeledrew]

Oh there's also part c where, once a or b happens, it'll clear the way for quality non-SEO content by creators who just want to share with 0 expectation of any return, which will finally see light once the return-optimized stuff has died or been walled away. The internet will be back to how it was before and meant to be with content shared for fun and/or interest, not profit, taking the front scene.