Comment by massysett
The chat bot operator slurps all websites and gives answers to all questions free of charge.
No other website can compete with that.
The whole story with streaming media is not just that pay streaming became more convenient. It’s also that content creators used legal and business mechanisms to make piracy inconvenient. They shut down Napster. They send DMCA notices. They got the DMCA enacted. They got YouTube working for them by serving ads with their content and thus monetizing it.
Chat bots are just like Napster. They’re free-riding off the content others worked to create. Just like with Napster, making websites more convenient will be only part of the answer.
> content creators used legal and business mechanisms to make piracy inconvenient
Copyright holders, not content creators. Though typically content creators are also copyright holders, copyright holders are not always content creators, esp in this context. To a big degree these practices are not on the behalf of content creators nor are they helping them.
The solution may be elsewhere: starting from creating content that people may actually care about.