Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2025

2 jruohonen 1 5/8/2025, 9:15:30 AM reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk โ†—

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jruohonen ยท 9h ago
"In response to these trends, publishers will be putting more effort this year into building relationships with AI platforms [...] such as ChatGPT and Perplexity, both of which have been courting high-quality content in return for citations and/or money."

SEO there, SEO here.

A little backtrack: media paywalls are supposedly increasing (or have already done so):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43923952

And citations are frequently hallucinated:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818313

And now it seems they can be also bought. A prediction might be that soon enough these have even less resemble with the actual learning materials. Another might be that also sloppers will engage with the citation gaming.