Google finally stared to pay licencing fees to the news publishers for using their news articles for creation of headlines and summaries for Google search results and for the Google News[0]. If AI chatbots want to thrive they need to employ this business model in which they would pay licensing fees to the content creators in order to use their content to feed the AI algorithm. And ofc they(AI chatbots) would need to link(quote) content sources in hope and in order for users to follow the links and drive traffic to the original content creators. That's how Wikipedia operates; volunteers are crowdsourcing Wikipedia pages with information gathered from all around the Web(plus books and research papers) and they quote information sources. But in the AI chatbot case the selection and the analysis of information is done by the AI unlike Wikipedia which uses human volunteers to do the job. AI chatbot and its content providers would be incentivized by profit while Wikipedia and its volunteers are motivated by altruism. Which brings me to the conclusion that AI chatbot would actually provide you with better information than Wikipedia(taking in consideration for-profit competition between content creators) or any other non-profit but Wikipedia is still useful and relevant with the regard to quality.

[0] https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/google-li...