News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google's New AI Tools

https://archive.ph/97UYY

A lot of news/content sites have become so saturated with ads they hardly work. It’s a really trashy experience. I doubt they make much from ads or subscriptions. How do journalists get paid in the age of AI?

Really I think we’re about to see web traffic as a whole start to shrink. Why look up information when your personal assistant agent can look it up for you? Can do the whole task you were about to do with that information?

It’s all going to look a LOT more like Her than people expected.

Google’s AI crap answers what I searched for. Visiting the WSJ site does not, it just hits a paywall.

I think the issue is that Google’s AI crap isn’t passing the salary of the journalist that researched the answer.