News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic

Major news outlets are in panic mode as artificial intelligence chatbots push by Google and other Big Tech firms crush website traffic.

New York Post
People really trust it? Like it’s been so wrong on things for me, I automatically skip to search results past it. Why bother anymore
Depends on what it is. As a reference lookup for a simple programming function and with an example, it’s been a game changer.
Yeah, asking an LLM simple stuff that Google used to just give you at the top of the search before the AI Overview was a thing, like how old is X celebrity or for a high level example of code, or as a stupidly complex spell checker it is pretty good.
Usually I would be digging through some old forums for examples from 10 years ago. Or searching stack exchange. Personally, my usage is scripting and programming sites has totally deminish.