And this: "OpenAI's search is becoming Google in the 2000s, if it can remain trustworthy."
The problem I see: People use OpenAI/Perplexity for knowledge. Not to seek website. I think sooner or later, most website will block AI crawlers. What does a website gets out of it?
I think it's pretty damning that it's not a built in YouTube feature by now.
I've found it to be helpful in getting quicker information out of some 'review' style videos, where I can ask a few pointed questions and get answers faster than the narrator can get to that info. I hadn't found it to be wrong in my few attempts with it, but ymmv
why would someone create a 10 minute video if no one would watch it and they would get no money for it?
The creator can use the tool themselves and post it with ads. In fact, I'd prefer it.
Get a third party to do the crawling and the AI company can buy the data from the third party.