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

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54 points elektor | 2 comments | 26 Jun 25 17:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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dpacmittal ◴[26 Jun 25 18:00 UTC] No.44389729[source]▶
Is it only me who feels its incredibly unfair for publishers, that not only did big tech trained their LLMs on free content authored by these publishers, but it's also killing their future revenue. It's like stealing from someone and then making sure they never make money again.
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1. blibble ◴[26 Jun 25 18:08 UTC] No.44389791[source]▶
> It's like stealing from someone and then making sure they never make money again.

isn't this the entire AI playbook?

artists, software developers, writers, musicians, everyone

total parasitism always kills the host

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2. _DeadFred_ ◴[26 Jun 25 19:13 UTC] No.44390382[source]▶
I think the problem is that government/companies don't see that we are eating the seed corn and completely hollowing out society.