> as LLM adoption increases you'll merely find that your site has fewer and fewer visits overall, so your content will only be utilized by you and a vanishingly small group of other persons.

So far, AI has had the opposite effect on my site. I've now been featured on both Hackaday and Adafruit's blog. Both features were clearly AI-generated. Both posts coincided with an influx of emails from folks interested in my work.

Perplexity is good at citing things when it decides to cite things and when you tell it to cite things. It can and does spit out plain expository text with no indication of the information's origin. I do appreciate that you have better-than-usual habits about validating sources.

I think you may have misinterpreted my remark about money. With the direction conversations around AI have been going lately, I was expecting a backhanded accusation that I was farming ad revenue.

"It's not about money" meant that I have nothing to lose financially by losing direct human traffic to my websites. Instead, I stand to lose those aforementioned email conversations.