'Existential crisis': how Google's shift to AI has upended the online news model

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Bratmon ◴[07 Sep 25 16:47 UTC] No.45159804[source]▶

Didn't the news industry just spend half a decade arguing that linking to their news is such a burden on them that Google should pay them to do it?

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mort96 ◴[07 Sep 25 17:08 UTC] No.45160003[source]▶

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Wasn't that mostly about how Google extracts a portion of the article to display inline below the search result? I don't think the issue was with the links themselves

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1. gdulli ◴[07 Sep 25 17:20 UTC] No.45160154[source]▶

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Yeah I don't know if that was a bad faith or just confused take you responded to but clearly the press was ultimately arguing for their own survival, which, selfish or not, aligns with our interests too. Destroying the imperfect institution of the press is a perennially easy message for demagogues to sell but replacing it with the tech industry is much worse.

The press didn't foresee that this path would specifically lead to something as stupid as automated generation of the news but they knew it was going somewhere stupid.

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