Laura & Lance
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Lance & Laura. Office dwellers with a need to explore the world. We love street art, diving, quirky things, and limoncello. Most tweets from Laura.
AI is killing creative professions, the open web, & the environment while being wrong most of the time. I went to Google to talk about the destruction of small publishers. They said they would do better, but it’s gotten worse. Bloomberg told our story. bloom.bg/43Jmzk3
Oh don’t worry, Google's not ignoring your blog. They read every word of it, used it to train their AI, and now they're scraping and paragraphing your answers to the people who used to be your audience. But hey, thanks for your free labor! Aren't you tired of it yet? It's…
Revenue growth at the cost of the creators that the AI was built on.
And of course there’s the revenue growth from providing highly valuable services to our customers + partners.
This is how websites die. Data from @pewresearch shows that Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after being presented with an AI Overview compared to result pages without one. 🔗 pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
Interesting: new data shows a 1% CTR on AI Overviews It was only a matter of time before new data & studies started to contradict Google's messaging around the impact of AIOs on traffic. h/t @pedrodias pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
Well yep this article does a great job of summarizing the hell that publishers are living through right now futurism.com/google-ai-dest…
According to Google's AI Mode, your next doctor may just be a hippo.
A must-read about the dubious quality of AI overviews.
Are Google AI Overviews leading you to the best results on the web? Or is this just a new prime spot for selling you products you will regret buying? Well, it turns out this rabbit hole is a deep one. housefresh.com/beware-of-the-…
Running HouseFresh has been an uphill battle. First, we had to fight for independent websites like ours to still show up on Google. Then, we had to fight for our critical product reviews to stay online. Now @linusgsebastian shares the full story: youtu.be/RNonfByE9xc
Since my FTC letter, many site owners have reached out to me Wanna guess what pisses them off the most? It's actually NOT the traffic drop It's the lost time & resources they wasted chasing Google's lies & misdirection about how to recover Google could have saved so many…
My letter to the @FTC: "Google is Using AI to Censor Thousands of Independent Websites Like Mine (And to Control the Flow of Information Online)" travellemming.com/perspectives/f…
“Not everything on the web needs to end in a sale.”
As Google reduces traffic to publishers, can we plz stop saying "clicks don't matter?" Not every website runs on e-commerce. Not every website is a "business" either. The open web was/is a rich source of information, freely distributed, spreading ideas and information. Clicks…
Major American newspapers publish list of top 15 summer books to read. It was generated by AI and 10 of the books don’t actually exist. The AI just made them up. AI idiocracy is here. npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-…
This is heartbreaking. We can understand perfectly the desire and lengths people are willing to go to keep their sites alive. medium.com/@lucwiesman/lo…
Hey indie publishers -- this Wed is the deadline to tell the FTC what Google is doing to the open web👇 Please take a few mins & file a comment with your story -- and please spread the word! Need ideas? You could talk about how: -Google's algo updates (HCU, etc) have…
The FTC is seeking public comment on how consumers may have been harmed by tech platforms that limited their ability to share ideas or affiliations freely and openly. Learn more: bit.ly/4cOnpP3 Submit a public comment by May 21, 2025: bit.ly/4jt4SKF #censorship
Google Links To Itself: 43% Of AI Overviews Point Back To Google. via @MattGSouthern: searchenginejournal.com/google-links-t… #Google #SEO
🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. Copyright Office SIDES WITH CONTENT CREATORS, concluding in its latest report that the fair use exception likely does not apply to commercial AI training. From the report's conclusion: "Various uses of copyrighted works in AI training are likely to be…
Google has invited a new group of creators to come chat with the search team and learn how they can help each other. Do you think we will see any changes as a result?
Google has invited a new group of creators to come chat with the search team and learn how they can help each other. Do you think we will see any changes as a result?
AI overviews are hallucinating and making things up, but small publishers have had our content completely suppressed by Google because we’re supposedly unhelpful. Make it make sense. mashable.com/article/google…
When Google says people are using their SERPs more, this is what they mean:
More and more data studies show that AI Overviews really harm the click-through rates on Google Search seroundtable.com/ai-overviews-h… via @ahrefs @amsiveagency @MordecaiDarrell @Similarweb