eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoGoogle Starved Out Publishers With AI Search. Now, Its Pivot Is Blowing Up in Its Face: Its AI Mode isn't the cash cow it hoped it would be.futurism.comexternal-linkmessage-square89fedilinkarrow-up1568arrow-down16
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minus-squaremoonshadow@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoHot take: this is their plan to choke out smaller publishers who can’t afford to just eat these losses. Once there’s no more real alternatives they’ll start to squeeze
minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoFor that to work, they’d have to be a viable choice in the first place.
minus-squaremoonshadow@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoOnly choice, viable choice, what’s the difference?
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoOnce it gets really bad, it’ll be easier to just stop using search engines and go back to web rings.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 day ago…Or, what most “normal” people apparently do now, ask ChatGPT and carry on with a complete hallucination.
Hot take: this is their plan to choke out smaller publishers who can’t afford to just eat these losses. Once there’s no more real alternatives they’ll start to squeeze
For that to work, they’d have to be a viable choice in the first place.
Only choice, viable choice, what’s the difference?
Once it gets really bad, it’ll be easier to just stop using search engines and go back to web rings.
…Or, what most “normal” people apparently do now, ask ChatGPT and carry on with a complete hallucination.