Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2025

  • "In response to these trends, publishers will be putting more effort this year into building relationships with AI platforms [...] such as ChatGPT and Perplexity, both of which have been courting high-quality content in return for citations and/or money."

    SEO there, SEO here.

    A little backtrack: media paywalls are supposedly increasing (or have already done so):

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43923952

    And citations are frequently hallucinated:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818313

    And now it seems they can be also bought. A prediction might be that soon enough these have even less resemble with the actual learning materials. Another might be that also sloppers will engage with the citation gaming.