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"As publishers lose traffic and shutter, the information that Ai bots scan for will shrink and lower in quality over time. It’s the fundamental unsustainable fact of AI that is ignored by evangelists: AI outcompetes and undermines the human output that it is entirely reliant on for its function."

"Google should be free to compete in AI, but with a separate wall between search results and Gemini. Forcing their product on every Internet user while robbing publishers of referral traffic is not a fair market. If you’re wondering why everything on the Internet seems worse today, thank Google."

"The ability to parse sources independently and garner a version of the truth from them is extremely important in this day and age. But Google's AI mode now does this for you, leading to the erosion of this skill. ..."