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JJ's avatar

Declining usage of Wikipedia is the natural consequence of failure to deliver.

Daniel Popescu / ⧉ Pluralisk's avatar

This piece really made me think, particularly how your continued insightful analysis on AI's disruptive capabilities across information aggregation highlights the crucial need for a paradigm shift from single-source reliance to real-time, multi-modal synthesys in our quest for accurate knowledge.

Drum Machine Bear's avatar

One of the best benefits of AI in a search engine is not needing to read through minutiae to find a small piece of information buried in a document or article. It can quickly point you to the information, then you can quickly verify the conclusion yourself.

Daniel Popescu / ⧉ Pluralisk's avatar

Wow, the part about Perplexity's multi-source aggregation really stood out. Spot on analysis! It's so important that gen AI can actually bring more robust info, addressing thoes biases Wikipedia sometimes struggled with. Thanks for highlighting this positive shift. Really insightful piece!

Mark Pierce's avatar

Movie and record studios next.

Drake Tungsten's avatar

Yes it definitely does reduce traffic because the AI usually provides the answer I was looking for. I have clicked though when further details or verification were necessary, but often times it isn't needed.

Jefferson Kim's avatar

Specifically with Google, they were smart to integrate their AI results into normal Google searches. When I'm too lazy to pull up a separate AI app for a quick question, I just type the question into Google for the quick AI answer.

GH's avatar

They are always ready for patronization.