Affiliate Marketing Faces a Reckoning as AI Overviews Reshape Traffic
Affiliate marketing is navigating a structural shift in how content discovery—and by whom.
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YouTube Will Auto-Label AI-Generated Videos, and Make Those Labels Harder to Miss
YouTube is moving from voluntary disclosure to automatic detection when it comes to AI-generated content.
The end of 10 blue links is not the end of Google
Google’s AI search push may kill the old web traffic model, but it shows how firmly the company still controls the future of information.
A startup that sells publisher content to AI companies is now worth $2.2 billion
Andreessen Horowitz led a funding round in the AI search startup months after a media researcher identified it as a key vendor in the unlicensed publisher content market.
OpenAI builds a new system to identify AI-generated images
SynthID watermarks and C2PA conformance are the backbone of a new effort, but OpenAI admits no single method is foolproof.
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A fraudster built a network of fake AI news sites to manipulate search results
Drew Chapin, who pleaded guilty to investor fraud in 2021, acknowledged running 17 AI-driven fake local news sites.
Google declares the end of the ’10 blue links’ era with AI search overhaul
Google I/O unveiled the biggest change to Search in 25 years — and it starts this week.
YouTube is now the No. 2 most-cited social platform in AI answers
As AI search reshapes how people find information, research shows that well-structured videos have become a dominant reference source.
How do AI detectors work?
"Perplexity" isn't just an AI search engine—it's an aspect of writing that AI detectors analyze to estimate whether or not it came from a robot.
LinkedIn’s war on AI filler: Here’s what gets suppressed
LinkedIn is purging AI-generated filler from your feed, and it has a pretty specific idea of what counts as slop.