Google AI summaries might ruin food blogging for good

Food blogging is facing extinction, with Google AI summaries decimating the livelihoods of online recipe creators.

Food creators are facing a real challenge as AI is regurgitating and combining recipes created by different food bloggers and passing them off as unique content.

If your food blog isn’t behind a paywall, it’s likely that your content will be taken by AI and twisted into something unrecognizable, The Guardian reports.

However, AI browsers such as OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet can reportedly bypass paywalls, meaning that recipes protected behind those gates may not be as safe as we thought.

Frequently, these AI recipes aren’t attributed properly and are passed off as an AI creation, rather than an amalgamation of different creators' content.

Famously, AI was unable to distinguish between real and satirical content after it suggested users should cook using non-toxic glue after repeating content from the satirical news site The Onion.

While food bloggers can’t be too saddened by their content being chewed up and spat out by AI, as recipes usually cannot be copyrighted, people who make their money this way are under threat.

However, food bloggers aren’t the only ones battling the AI regurgitation curse.

Apple faced a lawsuit from a pair of neuroscientists who claimed that the iPhone maker used thousands of copyrighted books to train its AI model.

Scientists Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik claimed that Apple used “shadow libraries” to illegally access thousands of pirated books, including their works, to train its Apple Intelligence.

Television and movie studios were told that they needed to opt out of having their work appear in content generated by OpenAI’s Sora.

However, this evolved into an “opt-in” model, and major studios, such as Walt Disney, actually reached an agreement with OpenAI to allow their characters to be included in its text-to-video generation tool.

The use of copyrighted works isn’t uncommon when it comes to AI, and certain celebrities, notably British artists like Paul McCartney and Elton John, began campaigning against AI.

The legendary British artists urged the UK government to protect creatives from AI, as ministers consult on possible changes to copyright laws.

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