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It's an open market that will step up to meet the need. IMO, we can't hold back innovation for web-1.0 based text articles + text search model.

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That would be believable if copyright was enforced appropriately on existing AI training data.

The big problem with this is it means anything really interesting will no longer be published in the open.

I hope that's true. The appropriate response to Google and OpenAI committing mass content/effort theft via AI training should be the disappearance of things that they can steal.

Unfortunately, there's enough slop that the average user will probably just continue using the AI, because it's so much easier that the quality floor they're willing to hit is very low.

As a decade long blogger I am actually thinking about writing more to paper magazines now - a 1000 paper magazine readers are more than 100 from rare Google traffic (:

I'm going there: I think the same is becoming true here.

A couple of days ago one of the web games in my profile frontpaged here, and while it generated a lot of traffic it was nothing like previous times. I have had much more trouble with large private mailing lists linking to things, which also leads to a more condensed rush when everyone looks at once.

Organic traffic generally appears dead, Google or not.

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