No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
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Re: No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
#2AI companies are causing a content drought that will eventually starve them.
Re: No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
#3> ChatGPT, Google, and its competitors are rapidly diverting traffic from publishers. Publishers are fighting to survive through lawsuits, partnerships, paywalls, and micropayments. It’s pretty bleak, but unfortunately I think the situation is far worse than it seems.
> The article focuses mainly on the publishing industry, news and magazine sites that rely primarily on visits to their sites and selling ads.
I'm not sure where this comes from. The way forward for publishers of content like newspapers is subscription fees and has been for a long time.
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist revenues are subscription fee dominant, for example.
Re: No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
#4the first thing when i open my browser is lookup at https://news.ycombinator.com/ :)
Re: No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
#5> ChatGPT, Google, and its competitors are rapidly diverting traffic from publishers. Publishers are fighting to survive through lawsuits, partnerships, paywalls, and micropayments. It’s pretty bleak, but unfortunately I think the situation is far worse than it seems. > The article focuses mainly on the publishing industry, news and magazine sites that rely primarily on visits to their sites and selling ads. I'm not…
Yes. And as someone who wants to see the ad model of funding gone, I think this is great. Force them to figure out a business model that doesn’t rely on harvesting my data and using it to feed me propaganda.
Re: No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
#6AI companies are causing a content drought that will eventually starve them.
Who cares about them, it will starve society
Re: No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
#7> ChatGPT, Google, and its competitors are rapidly diverting traffic from publishers. Publishers are fighting to survive through lawsuits, partnerships, paywalls, and micropayments. It’s pretty bleak, but unfortunately I think the situation is far worse than it seems. > The article focuses mainly on the publishing industry, news and magazine sites that rely primarily on visits to their sites and selling ads. I'm not…
Who will pay for a subscription fee for journalism if people get trained to receive their information from an opaque tl;dr machine rather than primary sources?
Re: No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
#8The previous model isn’t sustainable either. It leads to enshittification.
Content can’t be free if you want it to be of any quality.
Re: No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
#9If AI kills the ad-funded business model of the internet, it will be one of the few good outcomes from AI.
Good riddance.
Re: No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
#10> ChatGPT, Google, and its competitors are rapidly diverting traffic from publishers. Publishers are fighting to survive through lawsuits, partnerships, paywalls, and micropayments. It’s pretty bleak, but unfortunately I think the situation is far worse than it seems. > The article focuses mainly on the publishing industry, news and magazine sites that rely primarily on visits to their sites and selling ads. I'm not…
Who will pay for a subscription fee for journalism if people get trained to receive their information from an opaque tl;dr machine rather than primary sources?
People want realtime news. AI models don’t have up to the minute information. They need to search for that just like the rest of us, and would be subject to the same paywalls.