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I've had access to this in beta for a few weeks now and contrary to a lot of the very vocal opposition here in this comments, I have had good results. If you'r

I've had access to this in beta for a few weeks now and contrary to a lot of the very vocal opposition here in this comments, I have had good results. If you're searching for a specific site, obviously this won't help, but I would imagine that an increasing percentage, if not the majority, of searches are people just typing questions into the search box. I certainly do that a lot. This gives you an answer right at the top, and I haven't seen any obvious problems with hallucination yet. My only fear is how they will monetize this.

strictnein 2y ago
The monetization is that you won't leave Google.com as much. This has been what they've been trending to for quite a while now.
bilbo0s 2y ago
AdWords and AdSense revenue goes to them instead of going to "content creators". Which is pretty good for google. If you think that's bad, just wait until they can use generative video to create reviews of new tech products. (Come to think of it, just wait until they can AI generate video reviews of any products.) A whole swath of people and organizations relying on youtube revenue are going to be taking a 95% chop in pay as Google, or whoever wins generative video, takes all of the youtube payouts.
- dageshi 2y ago
  We come to the inevitable problem, the problem that has been obvious to everyone from day one. If you cut out the content creators, what feeds the AI? Where does it get its information from?
  - motoxpro 2y ago
    News will never stop being published, if nothing else by people who were there in the moment on social media Knowledge will still be published through papers People will still write blogs and share ideas for free (As they do on substack which can already paywalled) IG, TikTok, and YouTube will still be lucrative for creators (live or robot), so how-to videos will continue to exist. I don't see content going anywhere. Maybe the "10 best restaurants in dallas" but that's fine with me.
rurp 2y ago
I think we know exactly how Google will monetize this, assuming they keep their search monopoly. Over time the answers will get increasingly skewed towards their paying customers. Eventually Google's endless need to increase revenue at the expense of their product will render the results quite bad and everyone will start looking forward to the next paradigm shift.
- _cs2017_ 2y ago
  Can you point to any evidence that Google intentionally skews organic results towards paying customers (as opposed to, Google's paying customers have the money to afford expensive SEO to get themselves a higher ranking)?
  - rurp 2y ago
    Two examples: 1. Google intentionally makes search results worse so that users will do more searches and see/click more ads. There was a big thread about this somewhat recently. 2. Ads have steadly taken up more of the results page and become less distinguishable from organic results. This causes users to more often click on whoever paid Google more, rather than what Google thinks is the most relevant result.

strictnein 2y ago

The monetization is that you won't leave Google.com as much. This has been what they've been trending to for quite a while now.

bilbo0s 2y ago

AdWords and AdSense revenue goes to them instead of going to "content creators". Which is pretty good for google. If you think that's bad, just wait until they can use generative video to create reviews of new tech products. (Come to think of it, just wait until they can AI generate video reviews of any products.) A whole swath of people and organizations relying on youtube revenue are going to be taking a 95% chop in pay as Google, or whoever wins generative video, takes all of the youtube payouts.

dageshi 2y ago
We come to the inevitable problem, the problem that has been obvious to everyone from day one. If you cut out the content creators, what feeds the AI? Where does it get its information from?
- motoxpro 2y ago
  News will never stop being published, if nothing else by people who were there in the moment on social media Knowledge will still be published through papers People will still write blogs and share ideas for free (As they do on substack which can already paywalled) IG, TikTok, and YouTube will still be lucrative for creators (live or robot), so how-to videos will continue to exist. I don't see content going anywhere. Maybe the "10 best restaurants in dallas" but that's fine with me.

rurp 2y ago

I think we know exactly how Google will monetize this, assuming they keep their search monopoly. Over time the answers will get increasingly skewed towards their paying customers. Eventually Google's endless need to increase revenue at the expense of their product will render the results quite bad and everyone will start looking forward to the next paradigm shift.

_cs2017_ 2y ago
Can you point to any evidence that Google intentionally skews organic results towards paying customers (as opposed to, Google's paying customers have the money to afford expensive SEO to get themselves a higher ranking)?
- rurp 2y ago
  Two examples: 1. Google intentionally makes search results worse so that users will do more searches and see/click more ads. There was a big thread about this somewhat recently. 2. Ads have steadly taken up more of the results page and become less distinguishable from organic results. This causes users to more often click on whoever paid Google more, rather than what Google thinks is the most relevant result.