The Impact of AI on Publishers and Smartphone Innovation.

Publishers are concerned that new AI chatbots from Google and Microsoft, which provide answers to search queries in full paragraphs rather than a list of links, will result in fewer people clicking through to news sites, shrinking traffic and revenue. Many publishers are pulling together task forces to weigh options, making the topic a priority at industry conferences and planning a push to be paid for the use of their content by chatbots. The impact of "generative" AI, which can generate text, images and other media from prompts, has become a top priority in discussions among publishers.