Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

(acceptmarkdown.com)

33 points | by tilt an hour ago ago

10 comments

  • lekevicius 4 minutes ago

    I'll do that once any of the top 4 AI chatbots says they'll start making requests with this header. Before that it's just a neat idea with no adoption.

    I also think it's exceedingly unlikely that any of the top 4 chatbots would choose to load websites this way. Too many risks for a 0.01% adoption even years later.

  • monneyboi 12 minutes ago

    Yeah, this is the way forward. All the POW stuff is such a waste of energy.

    The open internet deserves a real solution instead of gatekeepers in the form of brightdata, firecrawl, cloudflare and the likes.

  • kaangiray26 37 minutes ago

    hoping for this to get mainstream so that I can just view the pages without any ads, js and bloat

    • Elfener 12 minutes ago

      > But imagine for a second they did do that. You get the API, all the info is there.

      > Why do you need AI then?

      (from this HN comment, worth a read in full: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43679585)

    • jiehong 13 minutes ago

      Markdown ads?

      • qingcharles a few seconds ago

        Time magazine already serves their pages like this to agents with ads for the agents in them, IIRC.

    • qznc 32 minutes ago

      Yeah, that is why this will not get popular.

  • maurelius2 17 minutes ago

    Even without AI this would be a nice feature.

  • a2ff6eeb0 17 minutes ago

    Hm, interesting avenue for prompt injection.

    • spockz 6 minutes ago

      How is that different from today where agents just do searches and ingest web pages?