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AI Is Creating “Doom Loops” All Over the Economy: The AI industry is destroying its own incentive structure.
futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-creating-doom-loops-all-over-the-economy
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
The closer you look, the more you see doom loops everywhere. Journalists, for example, used to publish work under the assumption that online platforms would drive readership to them. But now, tools like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini simply summarize their articles without sending readers to their sites, sparking a crisis that seems poised to wipe out the independent media.
Do people just read summaries?
What are people so busy doing these days?
Also that’s not true for me, when ai summarises something or gives me stats I usually click on the links to read more
Replying to @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
I used to work for a company that had a built-in AI summary in their search engine.
1: We were required to click the links that got printed out in the summaries. 2: That rule also applied to our helpline with worse consequences.
I’d occasionally call our helpline when I couldn’t figure something out/wanted a second opinion on a judgment call. The amount of times I got told “The AI said-” yes but WHAT DO THE DOCS SAY??? I don’t care what the digital meat grinder that tells me to break the law once an hours says!
All to say, yeah, people don’t click through on those links. I’d wager most people who use it don’t