LLM is really an anti human technology. The incentives that creates are terrible for society
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Counter point:
Companies have made their pages as hard as possible to access with automated tools.
People move to agents, if your site is "invisible" to agentic users (no API, no MCP) people won't find it.
Companies start opening up APIs - which lets non-agent users like us create tooling on top of it _without_ agents.
Not that useful when large swathes of the population are unemployed, which is where this is all aiming.
The reverse is happening in many places: since agents don't view ads or pay, and do steal content, there's a huge demand to block them. Cloudflare now offer this as a service.
Do you have even an example of this (one should ask for measurable data openness) or are you just making stuff up? Everything around has/is becoming more closed and I have one example: Reddit. It is not impossible to read without an account (account-walled).
I have a friend who works in B2B eCommerce specifically with some projects in D2C and they're saying that SEO is mostly a dead end now. It's all about Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) or Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).
So if someone is looking for a 18V cordless drill for drilling into concrete, they'll most likely ask an agent. If your site has bad AEO/GEO, the product pages are either impossible to read by an agent or the data is badly formatted -> the agent won't recommend your product, resulting in a lost sale.
Like SEO gave us OpenGraph and similar common tools to provide data in a machine readable form, AEO/GEO will force data to be readable by agents.
Some sites like Consumer Reports block all crawlers, so we'll see how that goes for them.
I don't know which part of the world you are in, but in the one I am in, commerce websites are hostile to proper SEO and even crawlers. (ie: Shoppy and Lazada, there is literally a market to buy their and it's very expensive for search).
I hope some relative of yours gets saved and cured by a disease that LLMs cured and that will change your mind forever
Let's start with LLMs curing diseases first, whatever that means.
Does AlphaFold since 2018 (from Google, and now as the Google spin-off Isomorphic Labs under Demis Hassabis) count?
What troubles you in the meaning?
Here we have it, people: the Most Normal AI fan.
Capitalism is, not LLMs.
The current istuation could be seen as just the next real frontier technology of the human race.
the problem is capitalism. Instead of leverigng it as a tool, we talk about job loss and restructuring etc. which affects real humans.
In a non capitalistic system, it might just not affect real humans negativly at all only positive
Most every country uses a combination of capitalism and non-capitalism, including the US. The closest to a non-capitalist country would be North Korea.
> In a non capitalistic system, it might just not affect real humans negativly at all only positive
Is there a country where a 'non capitalistic system' has been tried now or in the past that you're thinking of?