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I'm curious how websites will stay in business once it's kinda good or people just start thinking it's true

You will pay Google to insert your ads into AI generated answers. No need for the hassle of creating a website anymore. What a relief for businesses!

That’s an interesting thought. Just order your fast food through Gemini, or schedule your car repair or book a hotel directly through gemini without going to a different website.

I haven’t even considered that.

I swear I saw a screenshot of Microsoft’s with ads inline. I couldn’t find it after.

Seems like eventually, it would become the dominant predator, and deplete its food supply?

With these companies crawling the internet, it’ll be a race to create content. Then reuse the models to generate more, new content for your website

It’ll be diminishing returns for visitors

Worse than that is that it will diminish the desire to create.

Maybe the websites remaining will be genuinely interesting texts that you’d actually want to read instead of just query for an answer.

Sure, things like blogs.

But if you need info for a movie or something, where will the data come from? Back to newspapers?

I would imagine Google doing something like: “just use this service to keep your information up to date and you’ll get monetized automatically based on users querying your data”.

Right now they have us convinced to optimize how we give them data for them to be able to parse it (schema.org, etc). So we give them the data, optimize it for them ingesting it, then we loose traffic because people get the data on the search page.

We'll probably have to pay them to give them the data...

Yeah, but thinking about it now, this happens because Google has a monopoly on search and they can afford to dictate the rules. I think that with more companies competing with AI the field is a bit more even, and Google would be the one needing this kind of “advantage”.

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