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

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54 points elektor | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 17:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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xixixao ◴[26 Jun 25 18:32 UTC] No.44390022[source]▶
It's kinda an obvious solution: If people do get used to paying for ChatGPT like AIs (big "if"), then AI providers will start paying from their revenue for fresh new quality content. This would be great (if you don't like ads).
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1. ceejayoz ◴[26 Jun 25 18:44 UTC] No.44390122[source]▶
Ah, yes. Trickle-down economics again.

The trickle always turns out to be piss.