A big part of the economy of the internet is built on clicks. Google’s new AI Overviews feature may be changing that. Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images
Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images
Google’s AI Overviews feature can deliver an answer to your question before you click a single link. But it spells bad news for the publishers that write the articles that power these AI summaries: their business models depend on site visits to sell ads. And some smaller publishers have already gone out of business as the use of AI