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No, I think this is something new. It’s an existential problem for newspapers. Most newspapers have never thrived online but they got a stream of clicks and a f
by janalsncm 3y ago
No, I think this is something new. It’s an existential problem for newspapers. Most newspapers have never thrived online but they got a stream of clicks and a few 100x stories every once in a while. But with language models and RAG, we may create a world where no one has to visit their site at all.
This really hit home for me in Hard Fork’s interview with the CEO of Perplexity AI [1]. The crux of the problem is, if Perplexity does what it strives to do, provide answers rather than links, no one will be clicking on links and generating revenue for newspapers anymore. I encourage you to watch him struggle with this question because this is really an irreconcilable problem.
[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AJuv_UwxELA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AJuv_UwxELA