djrip
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As long as people visit the site, and click on ads, there will be no reason for the site model to change. If availability of good AI stories leads to hardly anyone coming to the site, then it might retire. If visitors keep coming, why would the existence of good AI stories matter to the site at all? Why would human stories become more expensive than their current price of free?In the scenario where AI ever reaches the point where it can generate a satisfying sex story on demand, one indistinguishable from something a human would write, I would expect Laurel to retire the site, or at least the story side. There's not much point archiving bespoke AI stories since anyone could just pop off another in a few seconds. There might still be an audience for verifiably human-written stuff at that point, but it'll be expensive, the way hand-made versions of just about any craft item are now. The site's old stories might still exist as a pure archive, if other parts of it remain profitable enough to pay for hosting (and since data storage is cheap), but it probably won't be expanding anymore, nor free.