By Frank Landymore
Publication Date: 2025-12-19 17:06:00
Recipe writers may be cooked.
As The Guardian reports, AI chatbots are constantly stealing bits and pieces of their culinary insights and mashing them together into a statistical stew.
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,…
