> Why let a cooking website get visitors and ad revenue when they are free to take the content and show it as their own?
replyI think this is a step beyond that - why should people be creating cooking websites when you can ask LLM how to cook given thing, while indeed, serving their own ads. It's the continuation of "we own content other people produce" policy
You can also tell the LLM exactly what you have in the fridge or what allergies you have and get customized recipes.
It’s just a better experience, 2026 is rough for a recipe site.
reply> You can also tell the LLM exactly what you have in the fridge or what allergies you have and get customized recipes.
replyCan you really though? Are the results delicious? I've never tried that.
It's worse than you think, many recipe sites do not taste test their stuff at all, and often have very stupid instructions.
replyThat being said, an LLM can give creative ideas, mix and match components, but you should not trust the details at all.
Case in point, when "minced meat" and "mincemeat" were mixed up: https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/09/american-website-includes-act...
replyIt is the same thing as when they pushed for AMP. They wanted to prevent traffic from leaving google.com then too.
replyIn that case at least they could point out that end users got better results with AMP than they do with news sites w/o ad blockers. The AI results are just wrong so often I don't really get it.
replyMaybe it's high time to burn it all down.
replyBlock Googlebot from your sites.
Let's go back to webrings.
Exactly! They also have been letting the results of google search get seriously degraded by ads. Would many people prefer AI over google search circa 2010?
replyThey killed their competition and now they will give you the product that gives them the most money.
This has been their MO with their search for a decade+ now. "Native" results hiding actual search results below the fold killed many 2010s era websites that relied on search traffic.
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