It's adorable that people are only slowly realizing that Google search at least fed sites traffic, while chat AI thingies slurp up and summarize content, which they anonymize and feed back, leaving the slurped sites traffic-less and dying. But, innovation.

It is, in a way, a tragedy of the commons problem, with no easy way to police "over grazing" of the information commons, leading to automated over-usage and eventual ecosystem collapse.

@paul I don't see how the chat model beats search and I don't understand why people think it will. I'm always going to want to be presented with different perspectives for most searches and I'm always going to prefer to know the source of the assertions being made.