Matthew J. Brown

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site

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I feel the same way about just leaving something randomly in the store instead of putting it back where you got it. Infant behavior.

@kanejamison.com

We’re getting an outpost of Austin’s famed La Barbecue this month. They’re just gonna set up tables in the burnt cinders of our city I guess.

isportlandburning.com - the PulsePoint fire map embed is sending me

Great name for a metal band

Sometimes they list beef ribs at market price/lb and I’m like ohhh yeah

That’s a great one!

You don’t know who you’re dealing with

It’s like four beers! I love these!

Got busted roaming the halls behind stores and making mischief and got banned to the dregs of Huntington Center ☹️

He really did turn it into 4chan

Plus they have insanely tough competition right out of the gate

^^that was from Benedict Evans. Interesting!

“I downloaded the complaint to see what’s happened to Penske’s traffic. Oddly, the only specific number that Penske gives is that their search traffic to pages with affiliate links fell by a third in 2024. I wonder if the real issue is that Google cracked down on spammy affiliate pages last year?”

Sure makes a lot of sense as to why OpenAI is launching a browser. So far behind.

Can’t believe he got that job after this happened

@markwilliamscook.com Do you happen to know if your Thursday presentation will have a replay available?

Don’t turn in LLM output as your work is pretty easy to communicate and justify.

The tricky part here for students is figuring out what is research and what is a search engine when LLMs are blurring those lines at warp speed.

It’s way, way less mailed-in than Holiday Road at the very least.

They just asked AI to make this into a photo

…makes me deeply reconsider my itinerary when I take OJB

Uncompressed Bowie>Cities>Bowie

Burgerville

The wildfires a few years back that lead to social media panic and attempts at local martial law right here in Multnomah and Clackamas Co. - sure didn’t take much

@rustybrick.com Have you reported on any broken snippet issues in Google? Seeing lots of weird results and ignoring of META description tags, etc.

I hope you like lots of paragraphs.

If you didn't like content written for SEO, boy are you gonna hate content written for AI.

“Dad, look…this one’s from Hertz for $7.26” - I tear up