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Google's early program to pay websites for their content used in AI answers is generating little revenue for publishers, with many sites seeing about one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from the AI payments.
Why it matters: The payments are so small that they may not offset publishers' loss of traffic and ad revenue as AI answers reduce clicks to their sites.
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“Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.”
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