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A comment on Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as Google sees a decline. Parent comment

Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by pixl97 on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:30PM (#35297639)
Well, I would assume a lot of the producers, for example people making products would still have sites the agents could pull from to have up to date information. You'd most likely lose a lot of the middlemen that take that data, add something, and then cover the page in ads.

There are also tons of ego websites that aren't going anywhere from what I can tell. Tiktok will still be around unless it gets banned, and something else will pop up behind it if it does.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by kweingar on Saturday March 25, 2023 @06:06AM (#35301164)
Product descriptions are a good example of info that will still be published, because people will still by buying and selling products. The problem is with writing where the writing itself is the product, such as news.

The LLM relies on free access to that writing in order for it to be informed about current events. The news publisher relies on readership to pay writers. If LLMs are too useful to the point that people rely on them alone for news, then ironically they will become worse products over time as the publications they draw from go out of business.

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