How user-built AI apps could replace the ad economy with a token economy
xiaosun86 · x · 2026-10-18
A contrarian take: apps written by users themselves with AI could break the limits of the ad-based economy and replace it with a token-based one. Example: you could never ban a restaurant from "where to eat" search results because they paid for ads — but now that noise can be filtered out forever, since users pay in tokens instead of attention.
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