Here’s a trend websites like ours are dealing with: AI summaries are killing search traffic. If you look up, say, the best novels released last month, the AI summary will pop up before the link to the Lit Hub article does—even though the summary probably plagiarizes our article, along with a few other publications.
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Because of that little AI summary, fewer people will click on the link to the article. Fewer clicks means fewer readers, which also means lower ad traffic, which means our revenue takes a hit. But we’re not backed by a billionaire owner or a mega-corporation. In the face of plagiarizing AI models, Lit Hub survives because of our members.
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