[ayaros]

Screw this. I didn't put effort into writing many paragraphs of content for my own websites just so it could be summarized by an LLM. I wrote it because I wanted other human beings to read it.

This is just yet another person running an AI company telling me why I should provide free data and labor to the LLMs that power their company. These AI companies are acting as middlemen between the end-user and the content creator; its the latest iteration of an age-old business model which works-out great for the middlemen. Meanwhile, people on either side are taken advantage of.

If the "next-generation" of search is accessed mostly through an LLM, then there's no incentive to participate in it unless you're directly selling a product or service... and then you have to hope and pray the LLM doesn't lie and misrepresent you. Otherwise, if you're making a website to share information or show off your own work, there's zero incentive to participate.

If AI companies want to pay me cold hard cash every time they query my site, then we can negotiate.