This is just a short article without a lot new to add, but it makes one really important point: "While Google in particular sends more traffic to publisher sites than any other external source at the moment, AI-powered answers could be delivered directly without the need to click through to a publisher site... Link-free 'complete answers' from AI-powered search could have serious consequences for publishers' search traffic and revenue." Now I don't care (much) about publishers' revenue, but the idea of decoupling search from the web troubles me. The value of the web today is its diversity, its multitude of different voices and perspectives. Link-free answers homogenizes that. We need to insist that AI-powered search cite its sources.
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