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Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?


This week, we talk about how content on the open web is being used to train AI-powered search tools, and how content publishers are fighting to reverse this trend.

But now crawling tech has been subsumed by the great AI-ening of everything, and is being used by companies like Google and Perplexity AI to absorb whole articles that are fed into their summarizing machines. Her coverage areas include communication apps, commerce trends, data and device ownership, AR and VR, and how the culture of Silicon Valley shapes the products we... Read more Kate Knibbs is a senior writer at WIRED, covering the human side of the generative AI boom and how new tech shapes the arts, entertainment, and media industries.

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