Comment on: TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
It is deliberately targeting known AI-scapers, or anything it sees as a bot?Could it be that other scrapers are pulling the pages, without making the extra requests to get ad related resources, to present the content to people ad-free, and embedding the ads in the main response body is a way to get around that so the human sees an advert at least even if it isn't the one they might see if the stalky-ad-tech-algo could deliver something.
Comment on: TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
This feels like the early days of SEO over again. There are no agreed-upon metrics yet, so you can sell all manner of snake oil. Hell, some of it might even work!
Comment on: TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
According to the article, its not like they inject direct ads in the article in markdown. But what's interesting is that they are serving content that is irrelevant to the article (in the article its the best inventions page) and it seems optimized to leave a good impression on LLM for an entity (Ally Bank in this case). They only serve that Ally Bank content on the LLM version of the page and don't mention it at all on their human page.Maybe they are banking on LLMs including it in their training data while scrapping or something like that. It does track impressions so they are definitely up
Comment on: TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
No,This could take up to 30 minutes for subagents to complete. So you go to the store, but the milk is already sold out. Walmart will ship you the milk if you pay the S&H. You drive back home and check the terminal. "Completed in 6m37s."is the worst timeline. That's close though