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We don’t if that’s the real reason or the advertised reason that they’re laying people off. If was an investor I’d prefer the "AI is making us money for nothing story". But I know blog spam is also screwing their product up. It’s why I pay for an alternative search engine.

Ironically AI seems like a huge problem for Google's main business. Even if what you're saying is true, and all the layoffs are because of AI productivity gains. Well guess what? Other people can use AI to build cheap advertising businesses too? AI is cheap and it's getting cheaper, thanks to open source AI, it's accessible to everyone.

What I've come to realize is that, it's not Youtube that's valuable, or Google, or even Open AI, it's the information these things are providing access too. The information people are creating for them. The communities.

Now it seems like accessing that information is becoming democratized in a way that Google never really planned for. Soon I might be able to have something that can generate a youtube video for any topic I need, without youtube, just locally on my laptop or phone. That's going to be a problem for them. They know this.