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Ensuring Fair Compensation for Content Creators in the Age of AI Chatbots
๐ Abstract
The article discusses the potential impact of AI chatbots on the current ad-supported content model of the internet. It proposes a new system where chatbot vendors pay website owners for content usage, in order to ensure a fair flow of money to content creators and maintain the vibrancy of the web in the long term.
๐ Q&A
[01] The gist of the proposed system
1. What is the core of the proposed concept?
- The core idea is a new flow of money from users to chatbot vendors, who then pay website owners for content usage.
- The user pays a monthly fee to the chatbot vendor, who then pays the website owners a sum per site visit during 'realtime search' by the chatbot.
2. What are the proposed stages of implementation?
- Realtime search only, with manual payouts by chatbot vendors to select website owners.
- Automation of the payment system, where website owners can specify their payment details in the robots.txt or a new robot-payments.txt file.
- Compensation for use of website content in the chatbot's original training data, which is a more complex challenge due to the difficulty of 'source data attribution'.
3. What are the potential benefits for chatbot vendors to implement this system?
- It could improve their public perception and reduce accusations of 'stealing' content.
- It may help them differentiate their offerings and attract users if they demonstrate a commitment to compensating content creators.
- As chatbot costs decrease and profits increase, they can afford to share more revenue with creators.
[02] Potential abuse cases and considerations
1. How could site owners try to game the system?
- Nefarious site owners could try to drive excessive traffic to their site through carefully crafted chatbot prompts. This can be mitigated by limiting payouts per user per domain.
- Insiders with access to the robots.txt file could try to divert payments, which can be addressed by requiring traceable payment methods.
2. How could chatbot vendors misrepresent their payouts?
- Chatbot vendors could claim to pay more to creators than they actually do. Publicly publishing itemized payments could help prevent this.
- Third-party certification of the payment system may be needed in the future to ensure transparency.
3. What other considerations are mentioned?
- The system could open up revenue streams for platforms like Wikipedia that don't want advertising.
- Chatbot vendors may need to report publicly on their creator compensation to allow users to compare offerings.
- Different types of websites will be impacted differently, with current events sites benefiting more initially before data attribution is improved.
- The long tail of low-traffic websites is not expected to significantly affect the overall concept.
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