alt Hacker NewsThe same is happening to a lot of website owners. You lose half or more of your traffic to AI summaries trained on your own content. The cost of producing original content is the same as before.
It makes research harder too, since more and more public information is infected by AI content. Both published posts and internet discussions are tainted.
And then the AI companies threaten to crash the whole economy if we don't let them do it.
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consp • today at 9:42 AM
> You lose half or more of your traffic to AI summaries trained on your own content.
Wouldn't this be the reason for not calling it transformative but simple copyright theft?
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> It makes research harder too, since more and more public information is infected by AI content.
God, how I hate the billions and billions (sorry Carl Sagan) of pages that look like they're going to have information, but just repeat your question and expand it to 20 or more paragraphs.
"You want to know about how much torque to tighten wheel nuts for a Ford Focus. Torque to tighten wheel nuts is an important aspect in securing the wheels after replacing them...". God damn, it's Eliza being abused to serve the attention economy, and you notice this and wonder if the page would have the correct information or it would just be another bucket of shit pretending to be information... So you think "Let's skip all of that and ask AI...".