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With Google & Meta blocking Canadian news, what next?
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Not making an argument, just answering a question:
One way that news is different from other articles is that very often, consumers of the content only read the metadata. How many stories have you followed, but just by reading the headlines? And when you aggregate it, it becomes a new product. The metadata that they aggregate is clearly providing them a great deal of value. It's drawing people to their site in the first place. They're putting their own ads on other people's content, etc.
I suspect it'll just lead to A.I generated headlines in lieu of headlines taken from news publishers then. You can't make any claims on the facts of the news. If there's a big earthquake in Japan then there's a big earthquake in Japan. An A.I can generate a headline saying as much, and the news publishers are cut out of the equation. At most they'd pay whatever subscription other news outlets pay for things like AP and other sources to get a stream of facts, then let the A.I go to town on that data.
And honestly as long as the info is accurate I'd much rather use something like that then have to deal with going to multiple websites, i'll go to multiple sources manually if I need to research something, not for my morning news. This is where RSS feeds come in handy but the same publishers who whine about this issue often don't publish a feed for the same reason. I'd personally prefer to not consume the content at all, if the only method was going to individual websites and checking for updates.
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Shoot, you're refuting yourself before I even get there.