"Even setting aside the question of whether the resulting recipes actually produce tasty food, the bots are biting the hand that feeds by destroying the business model behind the content they're stealing: clicks that would be going to their food blogs are being diverted to the chatbots instead, depriving the actual recipe creators of eyeballs - and ad revenue - that historically kept them afloat."
""There are a lot of people that are scared to even talk about what's going on because it is their livelihood," Jim Delmage who runs the blog and YouTube channel Sip and Feast with his wife Tara, told The Guardian. Matt Rodbard, the founder and editor-in-chief of the website Taste, wasn't afraid to doomsay. "For websites that depend on the advertising model," he told the newspaper, "I think this is an extinction event in many ways.""
AI chatbots scrape and recombine online recipes, merging ingredients and instructions from multiple sources into synthesized recipes. The chatbots divert search traffic away from individual food blogs, reducing pageviews and advertising revenue that sustain recipe creators. Search features that generate AI summaries and full recipes have produced inaccurate or absurd instructions, including erroneous ingredient recommendations and mixed-origin recipes. Many bloggers have experienced sharp traffic declines since search engines introduced AI-generated recipe features and fear for their livelihoods. The practice raises concerns about content attribution, copyright, economic harm to creators, and the culinary reliability of machine-generated recipes.
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