I've noticed that the internet is just "breaking" recently. Its becoming impossible to find information before it simply disappears into the ether. Google Search is borderline useless, and asking an LLM is taking a "trust me bro" approach. I see things flickering across the timeline and never see it again – was it real? The problem is that we rely on all this stuff to manage our affairs in the real world.

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The whole model is breaking. I was listening to the big technology podcast recently and they were questioning why people will keep creating content when the LLMs will crawl it constantly and their users will click through at insanely small rates. Chatgpt was like 250 crawls of a page for 1 click through. Will content eventually be licensed straight to the LLMs?