> It means that now, people are paying for their AI subscriptions
Most people are not paying a cent. And the people that are, are paying for stuff like coding assistance or classification, not the kind of info you get on Wikipedia.
Looking up Wikipedia-style information on LLM's is not a driving factor in paid subscriptions to ChatGPT etc.
It means that now, people are paying for their AI subscriptions, while they don’t see Wikipedia at all.
The primary source is being intermediated - which is the opposite of what the net was supposed to achieve.
This is the piracy argument, except this time its not little old ladies doing it, but massive for profit firms.