Recognyze AI addresses the crucial issue of rewarding content creators for the use of their work by LLMs and other aggregators.
AI is heralding a new era of the world’s access to knowledge, rivaling the Gutenberg revolution. But it has a hidden side: to produce their dazzling answers, LLMs need critical information from billions of Web sites. These resources — Web pages, images, videos… — are the result of the hard work of content creators. Recognyze AI ensure that creators get rewarded for their efforts.
The key to a sustainable World-Wide Web
The Recognyze AI solution is a matter of not just fairness but economic sense. Without this solution:
- The whole industry will be consumed by gigantic lawsuits for years. The Recognyze AI solution replaces sterile lawsuits by a sustainable business model that is profitable to all the involved parties.
- If LLMs get all the traffic, creators will stop producing Web content. According to analysts, this phenomenon has already impaired the quality of the Web. It risks breaking the very basis on which LLMs rely. The Recognyze AI business model is the required condition to a sustain a flourishing Web for everyone’s benefit including LLMs, authors, publishers and all Web users.
A simple and efficient model
The Recognyze solution is simple:
- Publishers of Web resources register their Web resources with Recognyze AI.
- Recognyze AI proposes default prices for accessing resources, but publishers have full latitude to set specific prices and modify them (dynamic pricing).
- Recognyze tracks access from aggregators and bills them on a regular basis.
- Aggregators can enter into individual agreements with Recognyze AI to get discounts and special conditions.
- Recognyze AI redistributes the proceeds to publishers, taking a very low commission (typically around 10%).
- Publishers also benefit from extensive, easy to interpret analytics on the use of their sites by aggregators and other users.
Acknowledging authors and the R-Index
Content creation relies on both authors and publishers. Publishers own the intellectual property associated with Web resources, but authors produce it. Sometimes (for example for small Web sites) the author is also a publisher, but in many cases the roles are distinct. Good examples are a journalist (author) and a newspaper (publisher), or a novelist (author) and the publishing house (publisher).
Recognyze AI compensates publishers financially. But authors get compensated as part of their relationship with publishers. But Recognyze also supports authors through acknowledgment. A unique feature of the Recognyze AI is the ability for individual authors to:
- Claim their works.
- Track usage through sophisticated analytics.
- Obtain their R-Index (Recognyze Index), a measure of the popularity of their works, computed using a novel formula specially adapted to Web tracking with its wide range of variation.