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

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Bratmon · 2h ago

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?

mort96 · 2h ago

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

gdulli · 2h ago

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.

skybrian · 2h ago

Google News stopped displaying snippets below headlines many years ago. Now they clutter the page with useless images and removed the preference to turn them off.

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

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