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 Another problem with AI-based chat is how it incentivizes bad actors to publish content to just shape the answers the AI is giving users rather than to make money off of ads. For example, business industry groups might fund lots of websites that discuss the evils of minimum wage and child labor laws. Even though they run the websites at a loss, the sites are training the AI that minimum wage and child labor laws are bad, so that's what the AI will tell its users.