OpenAI, Google, and other companies appear to be sucking up much-needed traffic to websites and massively screwing publishers over in the process. As Forbes reports, new data from the content licensing platform TollBit shows that AI searches send a whopping 96 percent less traffic to publishers' websites than traditional search engines — even as companies like OpenAI and Perplexity promise lofty gains to media companies that partner with them. When looking at metrics for 160 news and blogging publishers, TollBit found that AI companies scraped those sites an average of two million times. Each of those pages was scraped around seven […]

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