How Skyfire.xyz restores balance to our understanding of the Internet.
Black holes are cosmic mysteries. They pull in everything nearby— stars, planets, matter, and light. Once something crosses the event horizon, physicists say “information” is lost forever. What escapes via Hawking Radiation, tells us nothing about the original material input.
Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are the currently the black holes of the internet. They consume vast amounts of data—websites, articles, and more. But when LLMs generate responses, they release information without crediting or knowledge of the original source. The connection to the input is gone.
Breaking How the Internet Works
For years, internet traffic was gold. More visitors meant more ads, more sales, and more money for creators. But LLMs break this system. Bots and AI scrape content without offering any way for creators to make money. Why create content if its impossible to monetize.
If this continues, much of the internet we know—rich in knowledge and creativity—could disappear over time.
The Arms Race Against Bots
To fight back against AI scraping their content, companies are spending millions of dollars on bot managers—tools designed to detect and block AI agents. But its a 2 sided battle. Web-scraping bots are also evolving, pouring money into new ways to bypass these defenses. The result is an escalating arms race, with both sides investing heavily in outsmarting each other.
This constant back-and-forth is expensive. Millions of dollars that could go to content creators—the people actually making the content that powers the internet—are being spent on this never-ending fight.
Skyfire offers a better solution: allowing bots to pay.
Interestingly, Skyfire has spoken with many webscrapping providers and they all have a need to pay for access and rights to certain web content. The buyers are willing to pay, but the creators need a solution that allows instant, low value payments programmatically.
We’ve written about this need here:
