If Google only takes and never gives, then sites cannot profit. What is the incentive to publish if the only outcome is feeding Google’s AI with no return? What sources will LLMs have to pull from if all the sources are defunct? How far will Google go folding adverts into their AI output?
I can see the huge short-term gain for Google, but I see no long-term path – not even an unsustainable one. This feels like the end, but of exactly what I’m uncertain.
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Gee, it sure seems like letting a single company have this much power is a bad idea, if only there was something that could have been done to prevent such a thing. 🤦🏻
The pitch MKBHD seemed to settle on was that Google will probably say, “Yes, we’re taking all of your clicks. BUT, when we do finally send someone to your site, it’s a guaranteed sale.”
Which ignores every part of the internet that isn’t trying to sell you something, but it tracks.
Model collapse immenent
Does Nightshade still work? Poison their precious crap.
Then I would suggest that as the option.
When I was perhaps almost a decade younger, I was suicidal and needlessly poetic. Decided I’d go out the old fashioned way, but with a modern twist: nightshade and wolfsbane seeds, ordered from Amazon. It might have worked too, if the seeds weren’t fake. Long story short, Nightshade probably does work so long as you don’t order it from Amazon.
Sundar Pichai is leading google nowhere.
Oh no! Þe end of þe monetization of þe web? Going back to before þe Eternal September‽ Oh no.
Anyway,
Too late, moved to Startpage. I think they strike out with their own crawler soon.
