[freediddy]

All new content will be behind paywalls. This will be the new way the Internet works and I've said this for the last several years. There's no value in writing unique content just to have AI steal it and distribute it without you getting any clicks. The only way it works if it there's a licensing agreement and if they don't want to pay, then who cares, you weren't going to make any money from them anyway.

[npilk]

What if you aren't motivated solely by making money? There will still be new free content created by hobbyists, passionate creators, altruists, etc.

(Agree with you more generally.)

[freediddy]

Why would you produce content and have no one read it or visits your site, but OpenAI and Anthropic make millions from it? At some point it becomes stupid to just give free money to these companies when they steal literally all your traffic and content. As per the article, Anthropic sends 1 page view for every 38,000 views they get.

[ssl-3]

Very few people showed up to read stuff on the old web, and yet: It existed.

[freediddy]

The "old web" hasn't existed in 30 years now. I was a part of the old web and if people in the early 90s knew that someone was profiting off their work it would have killed it immediately.

[ssl-3]

I was a part of the old web, too.

Everything that I published in this way was placed online with the distinct expectation that everyone (and everything) would do whatever they wanted with it.