Google's AI Takeover: Boosting Productivity or Demolishing Journalism?

Google has unveiled its new AI-powered search interface, called "Search Generative Experience" (SGE), which includes a feature called "AI Snapshot" that provides users with an LLM-generated summary of their search query. This new format of search could have a catastrophic effect on the journalism industry, as publishers may struggle to monetize their work if Google's AI is going to mulch up original work and provide a distilled version of it to users at scale, without ever connecting them to the original work. It is unclear whether or how Google plans to compensate those publishers.