In a recent interview with Nilay Patel, Sundar Pichai discussed the impact of AI on content creation and web publishing. While Patel highlighted concerns over how Google's changes are affecting publishers, Pichai presented a different view, noting a 45% increase in web content over the past two years, asserting it wasn't driven solely by AI tools. He refuted the notion that traditional web publishing is failing, projecting that Google will continue to support web traffic and emphasizing the growth of diverse content on new platforms like YouTube.
It depends. I think people are consuming a lot more information, and the web is one specific format. We should talk about the web, but zooming back out, there are new platforms like YouTube and others. I think people are just consuming a lot more information, right? It feels like an expansionary moment.
I think there are more creators, and people are putting out more content. And so people are generally doing a lot more. Maybe people have a little extra time on their hands, and so it's a combination of all that. On the web, look, things that have been interesting and... We've had these conversations for a while. Obviously, in 2015, there was this famous meme, "The web is dead." I always have it somewhere around, and I look at it once in a while.
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