The Slow Bloodred Sunset of the Web as We Knew IT
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Using the recipe site cited, the only acknowledgement of profit is "but seriously fuck you if you have that many popup ads". Mkay...
"In 30 days, we launched a robust API & an RSS feed for top products. Within three months, traffic from AI-driven referrals jumped by 200%." yeah that's in the context that "I recently consulted for a mid-sized e-commerce firm".
A recipe site (with ad revenue) vs an ecommerce site: not the same revenue model.
Not a peep about sites which are expressly built for humans, or should be built for humans as the primary goal, with "profit" achieved by other means... maybe not profit at all.
The thesis that LLMs prefer / will prefer APIs is an interesting one, but unproven technically as far as I know as well as unproven as a viable economic model for content publishers.