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Can someone explain the technical difference between what search engines do to index newspapers versus what is being claimed here? Is the difference as simple a
by robg 3y ago
Can someone explain the technical difference between what search engines do to index newspapers versus what is being claimed here? Is the difference as simple as me being able to get summaries and content from a newspaper from GPT without needing to visit their website?
- 23B1 3y agoNYTimes is an ad-supported business, so you visiting their website to read the content those ads pay for is important.
- gizmo385 3y agoA search engines principle job is to provide you with links you can find the answer to your question. The LLMs are ingesting all of that content en masse and would provide you the answer directly, with no compensation to the writers who actually did the research to provide that answer. Search engines are symbiotic, LLMs are parasitic.
- Someone1234 3y agoExcept Google forced these companies to use their platform (Google's AMP) to host the content and essentially blackmailed into doing so ("we'll link directly, but only on page 3 of results").
- jeffbee 3y agoAMP did not need to be hosted by Google.
- Someone1234 3y agoWhen it launched it absolutely did.
- jeffbee 3y agoNope. Even the launch press release from 2015 mentions specifically that origins still host their own content under AMP.
- zztop44 3y agoImagine a paid streaming service that has, say, the Lord of the Rings trilogy as part of their catalogue. They’ll be happy if you send people searching for “watch Lord of the Rings now” to their landing page. But if instead you send everyone who searches for that an .mkv of Lord of the Rings that’s ripped from their site, they’ll probably be be less happy.
- mbrumlow 3y agoWha rid that .mkv was actually a high quality reenactment with different actors and millions of slight differences peppered throughout the story. And if a viewer of the original and a viewer of the .mkv talked about the movie they would agree on most things. But the color of the sunset or the home town name of the main character maybe different?
- solarpunk 3y agoWarner Brothers sued and won against Asylum for this very thing lmao. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockbuster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockbuster
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoThe Asylum suit was about trademark, not copyright. Asylum changed the title of the film to not infringe on Warner brother’s trademark and released it anyway.
- solarpunk 3y agoyes, op asked about a video titled lotr.mkv, but with millions of tiny differences.
- noitpmeder 3y agoWell at the very least it would be an interesting court case!
- ethanbond 3y agoThe difference is that search engines don’t destroy the incentive to do the value-added activity of “produce original content.” To the extent they do do that, e.g. Google’s “Knowledge Graph” snippets that extract content onto the results page, they also tend to be under fire for those. At least those (attempt to?) cite the source.