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> The only way to confirm that, or to get the correct information in the first place, is to read the original site yourself.

As someone who uses Perplexity, I often do do this. And I don't think I'm particularly in the minority with this. I think their UI encourages it.

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Yeah that's one of the best things about them for me. And then I go to the website and often it's some janky UI with content buried super deep. Or it's like Reddit and I immediately get slammed with login walls and a million annoying pop ups. So I'm quite grateful to have an ability to cut through the noise and non-consistency of the wild west web. I agree the idea that we're somewhat killing traffic to the organic web is kind of sad. But at the same time I still go to the source material a lot, and it enables me to bounce more easily when the website is a bit hostile.

I wonder if it would be slightly less sad if we all had our own decentralized crawlers that simply functioned as extensions of ourselves.

> I wonder if it would be slightly less sad if we all had our own decentralized crawlers that simply functioned as extensions of ourselves.

This is something I'm (slowly) working on myself. I have a local language model server and 30 tb usable storage ready to go, just working on the software :)

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