Article argues Google's AI answers are eroding the open web
What happened
On November 10, Hacker News' front page carried an article titled "Google Search's Death Knell: How AI Answers Are Eroding the Open Internet." The article says Google Search is shifting from sending users to websites toward answering directly with AI, and argues this is weakening search ads and the open web's content ecosystem. Google has acknowledged that AI search monetizes at a lower level. OpenAI's Adam Fry said ChatGPT has grown over the past year and a half to handle "search-like queries" at about one-fifth of Google's scale.
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- Hacker News front pageThe death knell of digital search
Google 搜索从引导用户访问网站转向直接提供 AI 回答，文章认为这正在削弱搜索广告和开放互联网的内容生态。Google 承认 AI 搜索的变现水平较低；OpenAI 的 Adam Fry 称，ChatGPT 在过去一年半已增长至承接相当于 Google 五分之一规模的“搜索类查询”。
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