Without some way to generate revenue, people aren't going to publish recipes (for Google to scrape into their AI.) Maybe we could live without more recipes being fed into the machine, but there are many other types of content that will suffer the same fate.
replyIt would be nice to find something better than an ad-revenue driven web, but I'm not sure this is it. We'll find out I guess...
> people aren't going to publish recipes
replySure they are. I can attest that musicians will gladly publish their music even when no recompense is offered. Surely culinary artists are the same.
We just won't get countless recipe websites where you have to scroll, scroll, scroll through slop about someone's day to read a scraped recipe that every other website has.
replyThis is just disruption.
> But ultimately that strategy is good for the consumer right?
replyNo. Temporarily it’s good for the consumer. Ultimately it is bad for the consumer, because as prices drop, so to does quality.
It's not uncommon for free things to be higher quality than cheap things, especially when we're not talking about physical goods. Think hobbyist vs hack. Selective pro bono vs quantity over quality. The former describes old internet while the latter describes much ad-supported internet. I'm not saying cheap is better than expensive, and I'm not saying everything works this way, but I do think many things do, especially for pure information that doesn't have a major capital cost associated.
replyNo, because now Google controls entirely what you see. They could decide to show you the recipe after all.
replyAlso, at some point even the ad-laden websites will die, and then Googles sources will be extinguished.