Comment on Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 week ago
This is like a network of small problems: the advertisement model being awful, ads paying almost nothing per view, overabundance of cooking sites, Google’s monopoly on search, search engine optimisation, Google forcing you to feed its AI to show your site in search results, AI models and their intrinsic shortcomings (such as not understanding what they output)…
Cooking sites were the first victims because of how heavily they rely on SEO shit, and how people hate it. But others will eventually go the same way.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
There are only so many ways to make chicken Marsala. At a certain point, recipe writers are chasing a dwindling market.
Let’s take the example of chicken Marsala, specifically: You find one that works, and you’re not searching anymore. It’s like the baked salmon I make: Yep, the one from the '80s still works.
I feel there’s a very small window in which one looks for new recipes, as one really only needs a dozen or so before there’s enough variety that things don’t get old. If you want something else, well, that’s what restaurants are for.