Looks like they’re also getting kneecapped by people reading AI summaries in Google, as opposed to clicking a link to an article.
The bots are just regurgitating the journalism without compensating the journalists.
Dark times for journalism.
Another reason AI companies should be held accountable for scraping all that data.
It’s not just the loss of public funding. It’s also AI enshittification.
“The way major tech companies, especially Google, have integrated AI into search engines and apps means people are presented with AI-synthesized information before individual search results. This has led to a sharp drop in referrals to NPR’s website; in some cases they have all but vanished.”
Check if your work offers matching donations too. I give monthly through my work so they get twice as much.
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