alt Hacker NewsThere are countless examples. Often I think about the fact that the google search AI is just rewording news articles from the search results, when you look at the source articles they have exactly the same points as the AI answers.
So these services depends on journalists to continuously feed them articles, while stealing all of the viewers by automatically copying every article.
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Of course Google has a history of copying articles in whole (cf. Google Cache, eventually abandoned).
I actually often have the opposite problem. The AI overview will assert something and give me dozens of links, and then I'm forced to check them one by one to try to figure out where the assertion came from, and, in some cases, none of the articles even say what the AI overview claimed they said.
I honestly don't get it. All I want is for it to quote verbatim and link to the source. This isn't hard, and there is no way the engineers at Google don't know how to write a thesis with citations. How did things end up this way?
Yes, and it's slowly killing those websites. Mine is among them and the loss in traffic is around 60%.