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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:07PM (#44242505)
> I think this will probably just create a strong incentive to cover important things and move away from clickbait.

But clickbait is how they make money...

That's like saying, "Oh, Apple will just have to move away from selling the iPhone and start selling hamburgers instead."

I mean, sure, but they're not going to like it, and it's going to come with a lot of lost revenue and profits.

I find myself regularly copying URLs, sending it to Gemini, and asking it to answer what I want to get out of the article.

I'm not wasting my time scrolling through a mile of website and 88,000 ads to find the answer to the headline.

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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by chgs on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:19PM (#44242576)
Those adverts and clickbait will infect llms soon enough, just be far harder to block.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by nitwit005 on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:28PM (#44242637)
Yes, unfortunately for those saying AIs will only get better, advertising is a major reason we should expect them to get worse.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by techjamie on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:51PM (#44242782)
Ironically, I wonder if it would inspire a slew of downstream services that use LLMs to clean advertising out of the mainstream LLM responses.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by downsplat on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:55PM (#44242811)
With the huge usage that LLM APIs are getting in all sorts of industries, they cannot be going away, and they're cheap.

If consumer AI chatbots get enshittified, you can just grab some open source bring-your-api-keys front-end, and chat away for peanuts without ads or anything anti-user.

I use https://github.com/sigoden/aichat , but there are GUIs too.

Plus, anyone enterprising can just write a web front-end and sell it as "the ad-free AI chatbot, only $10/mo, usage limits apply".

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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by brettermeier on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:10PM (#44259366)
But what if the AI output contains ads, not the UI or whatever...
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