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Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? (www.engadget.com)

submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For a long time, people put things on the Internet because they thought it was interesting or fun to do so. Ad based stuff has been around longer, but there's no reason we can't just accept that maybe the Internet doesn't make as much money for content creators as we all thought.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The ad based stuff seem happy to go with click-baity & AI generated content anyway. The people with the purse strings do tend to be stingy. So much genuinely original content gets ripped of, reacted to etc and diluted away. The loss of professional journalism has been a loss to humanity but it's one that we might just have to accept.

Now I'm sad.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Wish I could upvote this sentiment multiple times