I suspect there is a way to take advantage of this “weakness.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-15/google-s-search-dominance-leaves-sites-little-choice-on-ai-scraping?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyMzcyOTM1MywiZXhwIjoxNzI0MzM0MTUzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTSTlHNEREV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGQTUwMzI1N0EwREI0MkNCOTNGM0YyODVENEIzRDNCMSJ9.lVM70e8MPDcqlkA2TV5xPLIagjVBkBT-KCz8kq6_ZGc

Google’s AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die

Publishers say blocking the company’s AI bot could also prevent their sites from showing up in search

Google now displays convenient artificial intelligence-based answers at the top of its search pages — meaning users may never click through to the websites whose data is being used to power those results. But many site owners say they can’t afford to block Google’s AI from summarizing their content.

That’s because the Google tool that sifts through web content to come up with its AI answers is the same one that keeps track of web pages for search results, according to publishers. Blocking Alphabet Inc.’s Google the way sites have blocked some of its AI competitors would also hamper a site’s ability to be discovered online.

Google’s dominance in search — which a federal court ruled last week is an illegal monopoly — is giving it a decisive advantage in the brewing AI wars, which search startups and publishers say is unfair as the industry takes shape. The dilemma is particularly acute for publishers, which face a choice between offering up their content for use by AI models that could make their sites obsolete and disappearing from Google search, a top source of traffic.

Tools & Techniques.

https://www.howtogeek.com/duckduckgos-new-ai-chat-is-the-best-way-to-use-chatgpt/

DuckDuckGo's New AI Chat is the Best Way to use ChatGPT

DuckDuckGo's AI chatbot promises the same AI chatbot features as popular large language models, with none of the creepy privacy issues. Here's how to make the most of this feature.

… Unlike Meta's AI, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Google's Gemini, the DuckDuckGo AI chat offers users access to a multitude of large language models, including both closed-source and open-source options. Currently, users can engage with ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4.0-mini, Llama 3, Claude, and Mixtral.

Best of all, models like Llama 3 and Mixtral, which are open-source, typically require significant high-end hardware resources. However, the DuckDuckGo AI chat tool enables anyone to run these robust, open-source models directly in their browser without needing to configure anything.