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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 9772077" data-attributes="member: 1">Non-profit doesn't mean it doesn't need revenue to run. They're constantly asking for donations. If nobody is visiting Wikipedia, nobody is seeing the donation requests. Wikipedia will go away. ChatGPT will not be able to scrape it because it's not there. The whole 'death of the internet' theory starts to become reality--it's just AI eating its own tail with no human content to feed upon.Ads are down, but not dead yet. It's more that as more ad blockers are used, sites are forced to use more intrusive ad measures that they originally would not have considered but which make more money. It's a vicious circle. But yeah, eventually ads will run out of steam unless the technology changes drastically. Which it probably will--there is a lot of incentive for comapnies with very deep pockets to ensure that ads continue to work. Ironically, probably using AI.A lot of independent fan/creators (whether sites, youtubers, whatever) end up leveraging that traffic into selling something of their own--just look how many D&D YouTubers have Kickstarters. Again, that won't work if nobody is visiting their sites or watching their videos. So yeah, most of those will eventually fall by the wayside.So as you say, you're left with the 'institutional' sites. You'll see official info, press releases, that sort of thing, but that's all. You won't get sites like this one, for example (although this one should be OK in the medium term simply because it is funded by a print publishing arm, which ChatGPT can't yet mimic--at least until the synthesis of print-on-demand and AI happens, which doesn't seem like a large technological leap to me).</blockquote>

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