Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model

I think the real advantage of a google AI over Bing's AI is their book project and library of scholarly papers: https://books.google.com and https://scholar.google.com

I've asked the Bing Chatbot some questions. While it was good for finding relevant webpages, one of its answers cited my (recent) webpage. I was not impressed.

The answers I was looking for are in the old paper books that Google may or may not have digitized, or in the mountain of papers that were published in the pre-internet era.

Does the books case (Authors Guild v. Google) allow for AI training ? I thought it was only display in search?

I think the window on this being viable is pretty short. On-PC LLMs can already produce these summaries fairly well. Summarizing results across websites isn’t one of the harder tasks.

The missing piece is a user friendly UI that makes it usable to people who have never heard of GitHub.

Wonder what the economics have to be for a single AI powered search?

https://archive.is/mNZas

Works where archive.is is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=1125121212167&w=Nc3dItZtkP...

I for one do not plan on paying for hallucinated answers trained on Reddit / Quora posts