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n is fighting back against that and might restrict the visas from some of their EU officials unless they change their minds. But I don't think that's official yet. I think they're just thinking about it. It would be unprecedented that we sanction the European Union. That would be sort of a new level of disagreement. So I don't know what's going to happen, but it might. In other news, the AI compa…

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I used it just as a search app because it just searched better than other things and hallucinated a lot less. It did hallucinate a little bit about me, I'll have to say. But Perplexity now has a new program that will pay publishers for being surfaced by their app. So if you went to the app and you said, "Hey, what's the latest news about this or that?" and then it found a news article and showed it to you, they would pay the source, the news article.

Now, what's interesting about this is that I don't know if the business model will work, but it might keep them from getting sued and maybe they just have to do that. But I wonder if it'll put pressure on the other AI companies that they'll all have to do some kind of micro payments to all the sources that they're sending traffic or stealing from, I guess you could say. And I feel like it will if Perplexity has decided that it has a market value. Let's think about it this way. You know, it's the sort of thing that always turns into court cases. And if you went into court and you were the publisher, you could now argue that the market value of your product as surfaced by an AI has been

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established by Perplexity because they're literally paying for it. So that's what the market value is. The market value is what somebody's willing to pay. So that would suggest that the other AI companies might be forced. I'm no lawyer so don't believe anything I say about legal stuff but it feels like it would put pressure on the other ones. So a little legal pressure if not moral pressure. Mean…

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