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AI industry: "AI agents will soon be able to do any white-collar human job!"

Also AI industry: "Please make sure your website is adapted so that AI agents are able to use it."

Seriously, why help an industry that we all know doesn't care and will still scrap your site regardless? The least they can do it put in some minimal effort without expecting everyone to bend over for them.

That would violate the minimum required level of entitlement.

But it was nice of these devs to make this tool that will tell you how to make your site hostile to AI agents and even check it for you.

It remains to be seen if companies are going to spend more effort in to making AI-accessible design than they do user-accessible design.

If the believers get what they want, soon there will be no more human users and all traffic will be driven by bots.

It's the same as SEO.

No one does SEO because they're trying to help Google.

You do it because you're trying to help the people using google. (Edit: or trying to make money by driving traffic for ads)

Whether or not companies spend time on AEO is directly tied to whether LLM/agents/AI/etc end up becoming a lead channel that buyers use to research products to buy.

>You do it because you're trying to help the people using google.

Haha, no, people do it to try and get ranked higher and thus make more money. They're not trying to help anyone.

In a well functioning system, the incentive to make money is somewhat aligned with the incentive to create value for other people.

This is probably your point, but we are not in a well functioning system.

Not currently, but I have faith in our collective ability to push in the direction of such systems over the long arc of history.

> You do it because you're trying to help the people using google.

Who are all _super_ interested in "Top 10 Ways to make a summer Mojito."

Yes. But to be fair there are plenty of websites that are bad enough they’re not adapted for me to be able to use it.

And users won't need to visit your site.

Thank you

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