Google’s AI Summaries Are Destroying the Lives of Recipe Developers
Frank Landymore
created: Dec. 19, 2025, 5:06 p.m. | updated: Dec. 29, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
As The Guardian reports, AI chatbots are constantly stealing bits and pieces of their culinary insights and mashing them together into a statistical stew.
Matt Rodbard, the founder and editor-in-chief of the website Taste, wasn’t afraid to doomsay.
Rodbard, at Taste, acknowledges that food blogs weren’t doing themselves any favors by barraging visitors with too many ads — which, whatever you think of AI aggregators, they spare you the trouble of plodding through.
“Ad tech on these recipe blogs has gotten so bad, so many pop-up windows and so much crashing, we kind of lost as publishers,” Rodbard said.
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