Mostaque: AI-synthesized search results will destroy digital media ad revenue
Emad Mostaque · Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · May 17, 2023 · at 29:56
Emad Mostaque is the founder and former CEO of Stability AI. Host Harry Stebbings asks if a major media publisher is correct to fear that AI web scraping and search synthesis will destroy their business.
“I think he is right to be worried. Like, again, you look at Google's announcements yesterday, they were talking about this day after Palm Two, You suddenly look at the new Google page where they've got the language model, and it's just text, and where are the clicks? It was like when Google introduced AMP. You know, this is where, rather than looking at the New York Times page, you have this formatted thing with no New York Times kind of stuff there. Like, these search entities that aggregate are just intermediating more and more, and people are going to become used to just having synthesized input.”
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