Others have pointed out why this might (not) be code red for Google, but I'll say that it's code red for every ad-supported site on the internet: just as artists are up in arms over stable diffusion, this potentially abstracts information at a level that simple fact extraction doesn't.
Once upon a time, Google presented information from Answers.com along with search results. There was a link, so Answers didn't mind much (I worked there around that time).
Then Google started displaying facts from Google Knowledge Graph alongside search results, cutting out Answers (which had a favored status) and every other site that tried to monetize how tall Abraham Lincoln was (6'4").
Now Safari lists that information in the Siri Search Suggestion, potentially cutting out Google.
In any case, whether it's Apple, Google, OpenAI, or someone else, a service that digests the internet and then offers up e.g. "jokes about going fishing" potentially destroys the market for people to publish jokes about fishing.
FYI, I just tried, and Chat GPT's jokes about fishing are awful. e.g.:
Why was the fisherman always calm?
Because he had a lot of baits!
The fishing humor section of the internet is safe for now.
Once upon a time, Google presented information from Answers.com along with search results. There was a link, so Answers didn't mind much (I worked there around that time).
Then Google started displaying facts from Google Knowledge Graph alongside search results, cutting out Answers (which had a favored status) and every other site that tried to monetize how tall Abraham Lincoln was (6'4").
Now Safari lists that information in the Siri Search Suggestion, potentially cutting out Google.
In any case, whether it's Apple, Google, OpenAI, or someone else, a service that digests the internet and then offers up e.g. "jokes about going fishing" potentially destroys the market for people to publish jokes about fishing.
FYI, I just tried, and Chat GPT's jokes about fishing are awful. e.g.:
The fishing humor section of the internet is safe for now.