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News sites have way too much invasive advertising on them, but AI is a scam. Pay for your news.
Google's damned if they do and damned if the don't here: - If they don't make search AI centric, they're going to get lapped by AI-first competitors like Perplexity, OpenAI, etc. We saw many people here predict Google's pending demise from this. - If they do make search centric, they're unfairly consuming they world's content and hoarding the user traffic to themselves. Since no reasonable company is just going to st…
Google's damned if they do and damned if the don't here: - If they don't make search AI centric, they're going to get lapped by AI-first competitors like Perplexity, OpenAI, etc. We saw many people here predict Google's pending demise from this. - If they do make search centric, they're unfairly consuming they world's content and hoarding the user traffic to themselves. Since no reasonable company is just going to st…
The one way forward for them would have been to maintain their quality, but they decided to cash in on their monopoly instead. Peak short-termis.
Well I didn’t expect some good coming from the ai revolution and yet. If it helps to annihilate the « news » sites that depended over advertisement to be profitable, that’s great. Advertisement and journalism should never have been in the same sentence, no one can provide full independent news when you’re at the mercy of advertiser threatening to bail out if you say something bad on them.
How much do you pay for your news?
If the vast majority of Google revenue comes from search, and search is under siege, why is the stock so unfazed? It seems like the market thinks Google will be just fine.
Windows and Office used to make up >90% of Microsoft's revenue, back when Microsoft was the biggest company in the world around DotCom. Windows especially has been a sinking ship for a decade and yet Microsoft is bigger than ever. Google is well positioned to monetize LLMs. Cloud, Gemini, and Waymo are all growing and could easily be Fortune 50 companies each within a few years. Gsuite continues to do well. Google Se…
And it's not just that Waymo will inevitably expand beyond robotaxis into personal cars as well, they could take their expertise in vision and robotics and apply it to adjacent domains. Maybe we'll actually start seeing the humanoid helper robots of the 50's a decade or two from now!
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Those adverts and clickbait will infect llms soon enough, just be far harder to block.
Yes, unfortunately for those saying AIs will only get better, advertising is a major reason we should expect them to get worse.
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Those adverts and clickbait will infect llms soon enough, just be far harder to block.
Yes, unfortunately for those saying AIs will only get better, advertising is a major reason we should expect them to get worse.
If consumer AI chatbots get enshittified, you can just grab some open source bring-your-api-keys front-end, and chat away for peanuts without ads or anything anti-user.
I use https://github.com/sigoden/aichat , but there are GUIs too.
Plus, anyone enterprising can just write a web front-end and sell it as "the ad-free AI chatbot, only $10/mo, usage limits apply".
Take it to the next level, integrate the chatbot into a browser extension side panel. Let people navigate to websites that contain the information. This will work. It will allow the chatbot to provide up to the minute data and information from the source. It will allow the user to maintain context -- like a popup dialog allows the user to maintain visual context. And, it will incentivize content creators to curate an…
News sites have way too much invasive advertising on them, but AI is a scam. Pay for your news.
But how? I usually have never heard of some publication and literally want to read one article and never visit the site again. I don’t want to whip out my credit card, fill out a form, have a subscription on the books that I have to cancel, just so I can read that one article. I want the web equivalent of an ezPass transponder.
Another is what 404media does. You pay $10 a month for no ads and extra stuff.
But yes, I know what you want and sadly there’s nobody doing it yet.
Take it to the next level, integrate the chatbot into a browser extension side panel. Let people navigate to websites that contain the information. This will work. It will allow the chatbot to provide up to the minute data and information from the source. It will allow the user to maintain context -- like a popup dialog allows the user to maintain visual context. And, it will incentivize content creators to curate an…
The Browser Company’s new browser, Dia[1], is supposedly another similar product
[0] = https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-in-chrome/?hl=en