[skeledrew]

> In the long term, we need an incentive for the content creators to willingly allow such processing. Otherwise, a lot of high quality content will eventually become members-only with DRM-like anti agent protections.

I partially agree with this. Yes, some incentive is OK, for some cases. I wouldn't be OK with a mandatory header/message for example showing up in my output, unless there's some very direct relevance to the content. But there could be some kind of tipper markup/code embedded in the site metadata that my agent abstracts away as content rating feedback options, and tips automatically made on my behalf if I have it configured and selected the "useful" option. Of course source citation should also be a mandatory part of the output, for that branding and also in case there's desire to go beyond the output.

However, there will also always be content authors out there who share quality content freely with no expectation of any kind of return. The "problem" is that such content usually isn't SEO-optimized, and so likely won't be in the top results. There will be little lost if those optimizing for return start blocking their content as they'll also be automatically deranked, by virtue of content access issues, and the non-optimized content will then rise to the surface.

TL;DR: suggested configurable creator-tipping system abstracted behind feedback options, and the likely case that those who block access will be deranked in favor of those maintaining open access.