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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic

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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago
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Major news outlets are in panic mode as artificial intelligence chatbots push by Google and other Big Tech firms crush website traffic.
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    Which is such a shortsighted move because as soon as all the news portals close shop Google’s scraper will have nothing relevant to summarize and is gonna be shit.

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      Nothing is stopping the AI summaries from using social media as the primary source

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        Can’t wait for Google to AI-summarize AI-generated social media posts for artificial Google users created to hike ad prices. It’s gonna be wild

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          The robots only want to hang out with the robots.

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            Beep boop

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          It’s going to get wild

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        So social media are news outlets now. Good. Glad we cleared that up.

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      That’s when Google will buy what ever is left of Condé Nast or Buzzfeed at bottom dollar and start using more AI to shit out “news”.

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      they will be using that opportunity to make up the truth they want.

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