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Originally Posted by jyl

Here’s a “small” effect - I think more people will go to Youtube to learn how to do things or figure out what to buy.

A Google search for, say, what ski goggle to buy is rapidly becoming useless, there are dozens if not hundreds of articles and reviews and buying guides on the web that have pretty clearly been cranked out by an AI or with assistance from one. There aren’t AI Youtubers, for the most part, yet. You can look for sources that you recognize as actual experts, but with the death of magazines, most of those expert sources are going to be on Youtube. In this sense, I think it’ll be good for Google (owns Youtube).

Like you said, there are a slew of sites that "review" or "compare" products, but then when you get there, they have a list of the most popular stuff with a short list of the features as advertised by the manufacturer. Those sites tend to say "product X is the best", but there's no actual testing or reviews other than having looked at the features. Youtube is also full of videos of the same information using a computer generated voice. I have been assuming it was folks in other countries, but it's absolutely possible that those folks are using some sort of AI to create the videos.