Micropayments have always suffered from an early adopter problem because it’s difficult to convince ordinary users to pay for web pages. But if a big company, perhaps one of the AI labs, started paying websites using this system then it might bootstrap the system?

I think the difficult part is that LLMs are gullible and it will absolutely be gamed if any real money can be made this way.

It would be nice if this became a viable alternative to paywalls, though.