[dmak]

All I have to say is, as technologists, anyone who is criticizing ChatGPT and has not been criticizing Google is a hypocrite. It's well known Google tries to keep you on Google by parsing more and more information from websites and summarizing it. Ex, Wikipedia summaries, IMDB Scores, Review Stars, etc...

If you have a problem with ChatGPT's "scraped data", then you have more fundamental issues with how the internet is as it is today.

[flangola7]

Google makes money when you click links and visit webpages. Instant info features are useful but do not directly bring Google money.

[dmak]

That's my point?

If the product is scraping the data and presenting it on their website like ChatGPT and Google, then that's effectively the same as taking away the ad revenue from those websites because they aren't getting the impressions.

[flangola7]

You're confused. Where there is an ad impression (a user clicking to go to a webpage from a Google search result), that webpage pays Google for bringing them traffic. If the user never clicks the ad because Google directly presented the info natively, Google doesn't make any money.

I can only make the guess that Google offers this to remain competitive against Bing; it both reduces their income and increases their tech stack.

[dmak]

It seems you are the one confused. If you present any ads on your website (Google or not) then you have ad revenue. The less traffic that comes to your website, the more that impacts your traffic thus directly affecting your ad revenue.

The original topic is about taking away money from the sources. Google taking your data and presenting it is taking away traffic because there is less traffic to the website of the data source due to less ad revenue.

[detaro]

Google makes money when you look at and click ads. Visiting websites has a risk that it takes you to a site that does not show you Google ads.