Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traffic for some publishers

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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