The year AI companies pay for the value of publishing

The year AI companies pay for the value of publishing

Twenty-twenty-six will be the year that one of the AI search companies builds into their model a genuinely fair exchange of value with the publishing industry. Right now, AI search is mostly extractive. The bots scrape the sites and answer search queries inside a box that users never leave. In rare, but positive, circumstances, the publishers might get paid for the initial scraping — and they might be given assurance that their content will be s…