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🔎Google's AI-generated Search can lead to more paywalls

Google has been sacrificing website traffic for years to provide answers without having to leave the search result page. All those little FAQs with short answers taken from websites cut into the ad revenue of those very same sites.

But Google is ready for more.

With it’s SGE (Search Generative Experience) a chatbot-like AI feature that can answer complex questions, it aims to provide users with even more answers without the need for clicking away. The AI-generated summaries use key points from websites, sometimes displaying almost exact copies of sentences from articles without attribution. The cherry on top is that Google displays ads next to these summaries.

However, those held to the stone tables with a knife to their chest might fight back this time. Media outlets are paywalling their content, prohibiting it from being used in AI training, or, in the case of AP News, demanding payment.

Even though Google, after months of stalling, addressed the attribution issue yesterday with a new arrow icon next to the information displayed, its generative AI-powered search is changing the browsing landscape and poses an existential threat to the ad-based model of online media sites.

As Google rolls out SGE today in India and Japan, the burning question becomes: how can smaller local media sites with less bargaining power protect their traffic and ad revenue?

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AI Art of the day 🎨

Youtuber Jeff Synthesized created this short Pixar style animation with AI. It’s surprisingly good. Watch it here.

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