Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: It's an extinction event'

"This past March, when Google began rolling out its AI Mode search capability, it began offering AI-generated recipes. The recipes were not all that intelligent. The AI had taken elements of similar recipes from multiple creators and Frankensteined them into something barely recognizable. In one memorable case, the Google AI failed to distinguish the satirical website the Onion from legitimate recipe sites and advised users to cook with non-toxic glue."

"Over the past few years, bloggers who have not secured their sites behind a paywall have seen their carefully developed and tested recipes show up, often without attribution and in a bastardized form, in ChatGPT replies. They have seen dumbed-down versions of their recipes in AI-assembled cookbooks available for digital downloads on Etsy or on AI-built websites that bear a superficial resemblance to an old-school human-written blog."

AI search and chat tools have begun generating recipes by combining elements from multiple creators, producing inaccurate, unsafe, or unrecognizable results. Freely accessible recipe blogs and media have had tested recipes, photos, and videos copied, altered, and redistributed without attribution, including in AI-generated cookbooks, on Etsy, and on AI-built websites that mimic human-written blogs. Legal protection is limited because recipes as sets of instructions are generally not copyrightable, leaving creators with little recourse. Many food bloggers depend on ad-supported free content for income and fear that users will conflate original recipes with AI-bastardized outputs, eroding trust and threatening livelihoods.

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