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Yeah, that’s great for you, maybe not so great for the advertisers who need you to click through to a video (which they support with advertisers) or a website (so they can convert you to a customer) or, for that matter, for Google, which gets paid by the click.
It’s especially not good for a company which gets more than half its revenue from those clicks - but it ain’t good for publishers, influencers, or all those other johnny-come-lately-to-the-digital world entities that have proliferated over the past 20 years.
I have seen a number of youtubers complain that the google AI is scraping their videos and posting their message without attribution, and their view counts have plummeted because people no longer follow the google link to their video(s).
It sucks. But somehow things will settle down. If they stop making videos then AI won't have anything to scrape, thus starving itself.
