points by rf15 4 days ago | 0 comments
Sometimes I do wonder why it's hard to see that you shouldn't invest in AI, let Sam Altman hoover up all compute hardware and then make a surprise pikachu when hardware sales of your user base decline. Same for Google: "what, if I stop people from going to websites because I let a bot summarise what they're looking for, I get less money from website visits?"
At this rate (I know I keep beating that drum), I think we cannot have AI: it is too self-defeating from a business pov.
[–] kristianp 4 days ago
Just a clarification, Google's search revenue actually went up in their latest quarterly reporting. It just didn't go up as far as analysts were predicting.
[–] rf15 4 days ago
Yes, but the logical ouroboros should be evident:
- make money from ad views
- make people place ads on many websites, so a lot of ads can be shown
- use made money to build AI summary
- AI summary prevents people from visiting many websites
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