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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by marcuschong on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @08:26PM (#44243010)
It's funny most people are saying Google will win the AI wars, though that is precisely what will cannibalize their current business model, which had a much bigger moat than frontier LLMs, apparently.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by w-ll on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @08:32PM (#44243041)
You think we wont start seeing ads or paid for refs/links in those AI responses? Not defending Google here, when they turned that feature on I posted to some friends "another nail in the coffin for the web as we know it" or something to that effect.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by lostmsu on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @09:50PM (#44243454)
Eventually open models will be able to do the same, so why would anyone use ad-ridden service? The first LLM provider who turns on ads on their responses will disappear in a brink.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by olyjohn on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @10:04PM (#44243527)
People use, and pay for, ad-ridden services all the time. I mean, just look at Cable TV and the direction all the streaming services are going.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by lostmsu on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @12:37AM (#44244239)
Provided there are no identical alternatives without ads.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by bitpush on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @10:05PM (#44243533)
Data won't be open and free for scraping in the future. And news worthy sites will ask for $$.

So nope, open models won't be a threat in the future.

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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by _flux on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @03:16AM (#44245017)
It will take a long time until an average person has the resources to run models of similar quality (and speed) as Google and OpenAI can provide today.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by lostmsu on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @08:28AM (#44246899)
It took under a year last time.
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Re:Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traff... by dzhiurgis on Thursday June 12, 2025 @06:04PM (#44263677)
Because it's going to be 100x better than open models.
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