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Re: As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue

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It's really not the reality. AI spam is diluting the voice of 'new entrants' and removing any traffic based revenue they may get. All I can see AI doing is entrenching those large enough to integrate it into their offerings in a meaningful way, and sustain a significantly lower cost base. I use copilot at $10/mo. Gpt4.1 costs $2/m in and $8/m out. I'd do that in a single day, easily. There is no way any product I try…

I think the problem is your mindset. While you're coming up with reasons why you can't succeed, I know hundreds of people who are actually building things that are successful. I mean TypingMind.com is literally just a GPT wrapper built and maintained by a single guy, and it makes hundreds of thousands of dollars per month. If I told you I dropped a million dollars in the Pacific Ocean, would you look for it? No. What…

the AI's will outcompete humans, so the free market says humans aren't "economically viable" (guess what movie I stole that from lol). humans need to die off so as to let the market attain its natural state where the winner takes all.

Re: As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue

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> Evading antitrust norms via vertical integration is not 'competition'. (Apple app store and 30% rent) This one is competition though. No one is forced to use Apple or develop for Apple. People purchase Apple because they like their products more than the alternatives.

Apple literally forces you to own an iphone (and a Mac) for you to develop for iPhones. And they also force their users to only be able to install apps through the app store. "If you don't like use an alternative" is not a valid take here.

It is legally.
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