The article seems to say that just as AI is challenging search, it may introduce ads and inducements to buy stuff, the same "feature" that turned search from a source of information into a marketplace heavily front-loaded with ads and product placement, and a bear to use for factual information.
Enshittification?
People as buying robots. Great. When all that's asked for is information, the masters of "frictionless" turn even that task, unimaginable in even my own past, into a detour to "The Internet Shopping Mall".
The article seems to say that just as AI is challenging search, it may introduce ads and inducements to buy stuff, the same "feature" that turned search from a source of information into a marketplace heavily front-loaded with ads and product placement, and a bear to use for factual information.
Enshittification?
People as buying robots. Great. When all that's asked for is information, the masters of "frictionless" turn even that task, unimaginable in even my own past, into a detour to "The Internet Shopping Mall".