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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/caseynewton/statuses/113959998331555195">Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 10:38:40 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton" title="caseynewton@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/61006-48-20240126011805.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Casey Newton" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Casey Newton</a></section><article><p>I wrote about Google's leaked 'AI mode' for search and the dwindling number of reasons to post anything for free on the web <a href="https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-mode-web-decline-design/" rel="nofollow">https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-mode-web-decline-design/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4522652#notice-8854955">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-02-07T10:38:40+09:00" title="Friday, 07-Feb-2025 10:38:40 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/113959998331555195" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/113959998331555195">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4094312">Blogs and websites like this still exist. But instead of being links in a vibrant web, they have become building blocks for large language models and features like Google's AI mode. And increasingly, it's fair to wonder why anyone would bother make sites like these at all — particularly if their creators plan to expose them to the AI companies.By now LLMs have ingested so much written content that, for a vast number of queries, AI labs will be able to serve good answers to them forever. But — to take just one of Google's examples — each year will bring new wool, down, and synthetic jackets to compare and contrast. Who will bother to review them, when no traffic to their website is forthcoming, and no affiliate link revenue shows up in their bank accounts?</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/959/998/078/928/579/original/b373b7138a631886.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/959/998/078/928/579/original/b373b7138a631886.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.platformer.news</div><h5><a href="https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-mode-web-decline-design/">Google slings more AI at the web</a></h5><div> from <span>@CaseyNewton</span></div></header><div>A leaked AI mode for search gives publishers fresh reason for worry — and maybe reasons to strike a deal</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 10:38:40 JST Casey Newton
I wrote about Google's leaked 'AI mode' for search and the dwindling number of reasons to post anything for free on the web https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-mode-web-decline-design/
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1. Blogs and websites like this still exist. But instead of being links in a vibrant web, they have become building blocks for large language models and features like Google's AI mode. And increasingly, it's fair to wonder why anyone would bother make sites like these at all — particularly if their creators plan to expose them to the AI companies. By now LLMs have ingested so much written content that, for a vast number of queries, AI labs will be able to serve good answers to them forever. But — to take just one of Google's examples — each year will bring new wool, down, and synthetic jackets to compare and contrast. Who will bother to review them, when no traffic to their website is forthcoming, and no affiliate link revenue shows up in their bank accounts?
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  Google slings more AI at the web
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  A leaked AI mode for search gives publishers fresh reason for worry — and maybe reasons to strike a deal

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