Ask HN: How will internet change when ML like GPT replace search?
The eventual goal of search engines is to provide a direct answer. When technologies like GPT become mature in some distant future (unlike current the state), this goal would become a possible reality.
What would be the consequences of this?
One possible consequence of coming to a single answer for a search query is that users do not need to visit the websites of the data source. A large chunk of internet traffic to websites is for information (via search engines). These websites provide valuable information in exchange for displaying advertisements or social recognition.
If they do not have an income stream or recognition, they do not have incentives to collect, process and publish information.
How would incentives for creation of new information change?
What would be the consequences of this? One possible consequence of coming to a single answer for a search query is that users do not need to visit the websites of the data source. A large chunk of internet traffic to websites is for information (via search engines). These websites provide valuable information in exchange for displaying advertisements or social recognition.
If they do not have an income stream or recognition, they do not have incentives to collect, process and publish information. How would incentives for creation of new information change?