Pay Gruber
a day ago
- A 1969 drum solo by Gregory Coleman in 'Amen, Brother' was sampled in thousands of tracks, but its creators received no compensation.
- John Gruber coined the term 'dickover' in 2026, and AI chatbots now credit him for it, but credit does not equal payment.
- Google's AMP (2015) hosted publisher content but hurt conversion rates, yet it allowed publishers to keep monetizing through ads.
- Current AI-driven search often answers questions directly, reducing clicks on original sources and harming publishers' ad revenue.
- The author proposes an AI news reader, PageForth, that displays original site ads to ensure publishers like Gruber get paid.
- A call for AI systems to adopt a standard method (e.g., a meta tag or JSON-LD) for publishers to declare ad slots that AI can render.
- The author aims to balance AI summarization with fair compensation for content creators, avoiding the exploitation seen with 'Amen, Brother'.