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No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search

(bradt.ca)
137 points bradt | 4 comments | 31 Aug 25 15:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.824s | source
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p_ing ◴[31 Aug 25 18:21 UTC] No.45085554[source]▶
Injecting ads into answers will be the next step for the search market. Reddit is doing it already. And unlike reddit post or comment ads, it may be very difficult to block.
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duncanfwalker ◴[31 Aug 25 18:33 UTC] No.45085685[source]▶
Oh god, this has just made me reflect that we're in the golden age of generative AI - not in technology terms, in user experience terms. We're in the period where the major products are competing against each other before they switch into enshitfication mode. You're certainly right, there's going to be ads in the answers and probably worse. I'm imagining companies paying to introduce ideas as subtle subtexts to millions of unrelated answers or platforms deliberately engineering the ux to maximise understanding of our drives and preferences purely so it can be sold.
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1. aftergibson ◴[31 Aug 25 19:31 UTC] No.45086299[source]▶
Of course. Were in the burning VCs cash by the truckload phase. And inference isn't getting cheaper. I'd argue this is the worst its ever been in terms of over extending a business and they might not be able to enshitificate fast enough.
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2. justahuman74 ◴[31 Aug 25 21:09 UTC] No.45087114[source]▶
Inference will get much much cheaper. We're paying $30000 for a top of the line gpu right now, but that's only because everyone insists on buying nvidia, so nvidia has full incentive to charge the absolute maximum.

Long term that vendor lock in will go away and prices will go down to something reasonable.

Long ago CPUs were super expensive too, now they're so cheap we put them in toothbrushes

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3. ares623 ◴[01 Sep 25 00:08 UTC] No.45088253[source]▶
> Long ago CPUs were super expensive too, now they're so cheap we put them in toothbrushes

Long ago GPUs were already affordable. We used to buy them to play _games_!

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4. p_ing ◴[01 Sep 25 02:30 UTC] No.45088897{3}[source]▶
A Voodoo2 12MB was only $600 in today's money!