SALT LAKE CITY — Journalists are used to having their work repurposed. It’s done by social media influencers. It’s done by news aggregator websites. Heck, even pedigreed journalists build on one another’s work. But a major source of personal finance content says it has reached a breaking point with the world’s largest search engine.
It used to be that if you typed a search query into Google, you’d be met with a list of links that would take you to a website with the answer. But now, Google’s artificial intelligence tool just gives the answer straight away.
Sure, the source of the answer is displayed to the right, but since the AI has already fed you that answer, there’s no need for you to click the link back to the source…