I’m surprised nobody thought at this before. It was the fairly obvious outcome, inevitably this will lead to the collapse of the information environment we rely on, if nobody puts a stop to this. Ai doesn’t seem to care, neither improvements seem to target this. Small websites were already struggling, now they’re dying.
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hadn’t thought of this before.
The AI summary stops people from going to the website, which means the website the AI used isn’t getting any page views.
On a long enough timeline, it would kill webpages, then the AI has no new info to steal.
SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 2 days ago
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
People have been talking about it since Google debuted their instant answers years ago.
Nobody listened or cared.
SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It seems they’ve been deprioritised entirely, years ago i was able to find actual blogs and forums. But this is going to hit them even harder.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I switched to Kagi for this and they have “small web” and fediverse search.
They are a US based paid search engine and so far have not enshittified.
They’re one of the few US services I kept (low switching costs, low lock in, and a company I like) despite otherwise boycotting most other US products.
deur@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Literally everyone has been saying this the entire time.
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 2 days ago
We do not need to worry. The amount of scraping and traffic those ais are doing are already killing every website. At least they all have full backups of the whole internet by now… Right? Righttt?
db2@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You had one job.