Nevermind how *unfair* that is, think about how *implausible* it is: if this is the way Google will work in the future, why wouldn't every publisher just *block Google's crawler*?
A third obvious objection: AI is bad. Not morally bad (though maybe morally bad, too!), but *technically* bad. It "hallucinates" nonsense answers, including dangerous nonsense. It's a supremely confident liar that can get you killed:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai
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