'existential Crisis': How Google's Shift to AI Has Upended the Online News Model
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The shift to AI-powered search by Google is causing an existential crisis for online news publishers, who are now questioning the viability of their current business models, with some commenters pointing out the irony given the industry's previous stance on Google's linking practices.
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I suppose you could also search on something generic like “ai news?” When I tried that, all the news story results at the top of the page had no snippets. It’s not until way down the page that there are regular search results with snippets.
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.