Can WordPress Save the Open Web? ![rw-book-cover](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1SHdlDF-_Fs/maxresdefault.jpg) 🔗 **Source:** [Can WordPress Save the Open Web?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SHdlDF-_Fs) Hi everyone and welcome to the WP Minute. I'm Eric Caravac. Today's episode features a segment from part two of my interview with Alysa Park co-founder Jeffrey Zelman. Here Jeffrey discusses the role WordPress and the open-source movement can play in protecting privacy. Now you can check out the entire interview over on our WP Minute Plus channel. Visit thewpmin.com for all the details. Um, what role can WordPress and open-source play in keeping the open web alive and thriving and and and kind of keep pushing us forward on accessibility and standards and privacy especially that's another big one that we we need to >> privacy is huge privacy is huge and when you're working with AI how do you guarantee privacy if if you're using an AI tool to say look at every message I send all day long look at every comp I make read every article I publish and tell me every day like what's the most important after a week tell me what what patterns do you see in my work how can I improve my work like that to me is an okay use of AI um but how do you give AI access to everything you do and make sure that it won't say hey I see I hear you're in queer romatic um when did you know you were queer like no it's not supposed to do any of that. Right? So, um just as an example, uh I think with AI now, I think one thing WordPress can do is say, "All right, you're not allowed to scrape this site for content, period." Or you the owner of this site will let you scrape this site for content, but you have to pay them a certain amount because they're losing advertising revenue or subscription revenue or whatever it is. So helps to compensate the people we serve as we all deal with this huge change in the ecosystem. Similarly, WordPress can uh can say all right you know five years ago if you had a coffee shop we could make you could make a WordPress website but half the time someone's going to typed into chat GBT or into Claude or whatever um where's there a coffee shop near me? I they should still be able to find your coffee shop. It should still be able it should be able to grab the information from your website. It should provide a link to your website like you know words won't do it. Go look at the pictures. Basically, since we know that these huge companies are going to be grabbing and these huge new tools are going to be grabbing content without necessarily recompensing the people who create the content, the web will die. five years of that and there'll be no new content left and then it'll just be bots scraping what bots wrote to serve to bots like it'll just be so how can we continue to serve the human beings here whether they use AI or not whether they like AI or not how can we help them deal with this change that's coming from all at us from all sides um I think that's a really important role that uh WordPress can play I don't know what I know that the website of the future, which is something one of our adviserss talks about, um I don't know that it's any different from the website of now, but it's going to have to have underpinning to it under the surface that that you know makes it more easily not only for Google to find, but for all these bots to find. like how do I make sure that my content is getting to the the agent that's going to book my client, you know, that's going to book this user's airline tickets and how do I still let them know that they should come to my website if they have a problem with the ticket or whatever. Um, so I I think it's that negotiating the rift that AI is temporarily creating and hopefully only temporarily between creators and every and the thing we want, which is come to my website and do a, you know, come to my website and do B, come to my website, subscribe, check out my advertiser. Don't do any of that. I even even if I have a free website that's not monetized like zeldman.com uh I still want people to come to it. I still want you to read my words the way I laid them out if at all possible. Yes, you can read them in RSS. Yes, you can read them any number of ways. Yes, you can have, you know, you can read them scraped onto LinkedIn or whatever. But I also want you to come here because I like my new design and I want you to see, Can WordPress Save the Open Web?, YouTube, 01ks0279hmpy2xm4svhz8m3eyh.