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You are indeed a very wise owl :) Thanks once again for a most interesting article.

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On 27/07/2025 09:11, David B. wrote:
> Today's Blog by Howard Oakley is well worth reading!
> 
> =
> 
> When The Economist publishes two articles, one of them a leader, about 
> the same issue you know it needs to be taken seriously. In its edition 
> of 19 July 2025, one of its leaders is titled To survive the AI age, the 
> web needs a new business model, and a longer article in its Business 
> section states AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? Both are 
> well worth the effort of creating an account to read them. The leader 
> states crisply that “the danger is that, as answer-engines take readers 
> away, they are removing the incentive for content to be created,” 
> concluding that “if nothing changes, the risk is of a modern-day tragedy 
> of the commons. The shared resource of the open web will be over- 
> exploited, leading to its eventual exhaustion.”
> 
> The problem lies in what it so appropriately refers to as Google’s 
> change from being a search to an answer engine, a subject further 
> explored by the Pew Research Center’s timely report of their study 
> summarised here by humans. That demonstrates that Google “users are less 
> likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results”.
> 
> These themes are central to my previous account of PageRank and 
> plagiarism. As with others who publish original work on the web, I’m 
> used to sites that copy entire articles, such as MacMegasite. Within an 
> hour of its publication here, for example, that had stolen the whole of 
> Friday’s Mac article, word for word.
> 
> More at .....
> 
> https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/27/last-week-on-my-mac-🦉-no-ai-content/
> 
> I posted this as a comment, but I doubt it will appear:-
> 
> "An excellent article, Howard, which I will share with folk I hope will 
> read it. Thank you. I have no doubt that everything you say and do is 
> done so in good faith.
> However, you have used and have recommended a product called EtreCheck, 
> made available by a 'Will 'o the wisp' character that you know 
> absolutely nothing about. I think you have been too trusting in that 
> regard. Perhaps it is now time to take a closer look at the developer of 
> the product."


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You are indeed a very wise owl :) Thanks once again for a most interesting article. "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-27 10:06 +0100
  Re: You are indeed a very wise owl :) Thanks once again for a most interesting article. Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-07-27 19:07 +0000
    Re: You are indeed a very wise owl :) Thanks once again for a most interesting article. "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-27 23:17 +0100

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