big doubt on that and maybe that's a good thing? Let's be honest, right now most of the web is dominated by low effort spam. Taking money away from view farming would dramatically increase the web quality of the web. Suddently that guy who's really into "key gardening" doing research and publishing detailed results on his website actually has viewers — isn't this good? Especially since website hosting is close to being free these days.
> big doubt on that and maybe that's a good thing? Let's be honest, right now most of the web is dominated by low effort spam.
I think that is funny considering it is likely going to have the exact opposite effect.
Low effort blog spam is cheap to make. And it is often part of content marketing strategies where brand visibility is all that matters, so not much harm if the viability is directly on your site or in an AI chatbit interface.
Quality content on the other hand is hard to make. And there are two groups of people who make such content:
1. individuals or small groups that like to share for the sake of sharing. They likely won’t care about the AI crawlers stealing their content, although I think there is a big overlap between people who still run blogs and those who dislike AI.
2. small organizations that are dedicated to one specific topic and are often largely ad financed. These organizations would likely stop to exist in such an AI search dominated world.
> Especially since website hosting is close to being free these days.
It is under specific circumstances. The problem is that those AI crawlers don’t check by once in a while like Google does but instead they hit the site very frequently. For a static site this won’t be much of an issue except for maybe bandwidth. For more complex sites like - say - the GitLab instances for OSS projects, reality paints a different picture
Still unconvinced. You really don't need anything beyond a static site to effectively share information.
Another point you're missing is that there's a 3rd group of people sharing content: experts who are there to establish their expertise. Small companies and individuals generate the highest quality content these days. I work on a blog for our SAAS company and it has been a great success in terms of organic growth (even people coming from LLMs) and to simply establish authority and signal expertise in the field. I can imagine a future where this is majority of expert content on the web and it seems quite sustainable imo.
You’d already be blocking me as I’d guess I now search via AI >90% of the time between perplexity, chatgpt, deep research, and google search AI.