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Cale Hunt

AI search is gutting publisher revenue — This startup's $5 plan aims to fix that

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AI is wreaking havoc on the digital publishing world, an industry that continues to rely on clicks, pageviews, and the resulting ad or affiliate revenue from human traffic.

AI crawlers have long had a free pass to harvest data from websites and publishers, displaying the info in a way that readers can skip actually clicking through to a site.

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