In an interview with Nicholas Thompson last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backed a micropayments strategy for news:“What really makes sense in a world of agents is we try a sort of micropayment-based approach. […] My agent can read it, pay $0.17, and give me a summary of that. If I want to go read the whole article, pay $1, or however that works. If my agent wants to calculate something for me that’s really difficult to do, it can go rent some cloud compute somewhere and pay for that, but I think there will be need to be a new economic model for these agents doing lots of small transactions and exchanges of value with each other on behalf of their human controllers or whatever, all of the time.”What he describes is a combination of pay-per-view and a utility model. In pay-per-view, you’re paying a custom price set by the publisher in order to access a resource; you as the user might get a prompt asking whether you approve the transaction, or you might just give it an approved budget.…
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