[softwaredoug]

AI kills search traffic. Yes.

OTOH good search - deep research - is one of the biggest productivity gains using AI.

[ceejayoz]

Until they kill off the content providers who a) rely on that traffic and b) provide the raw material for the models, of course.

[heisenbit]

And until now had to pay part of their revenue to Google for search results being ranked accordingly. Diversity of ingress vectors may not be such a bad thing.

[GardenLetter27]

And put ads and sponsored results in the LLMs.

[candiddevmike]

Using AI to do research almost seems worse than citing wikipedia as a reference.

[amirmi78]

The same people who cited Wikipedia instead of its sources are probably the same people who cite AI instead of its sources. New scope for people with a stick.