AI-generated menu boards started appearing in delis, cafés and night markets this summer, and the internet reacted with something close to nausea. TechCrunch’s Amanda Silberling published the sharpest explanation of why on 3 September 2026, and her answer was not “the models are bad at food.” It was stranger and more useful than that: the […]
On 31 August 2026 Dana McKay and Damiano Spina of RMIT University argued in The Conversation that the web’s thirty-year deal between crawlers and websites has collapsed: AI crawlers take content to train models and write answers while sending almost no traffic back, reputable publishers respond by blocking them, and AI answers increasingly draw on the low-quality and AI-generated sites that do not block. This piece sets out their argument, the Pew, Wikipedia and Cloudflare data behind it, the three peer-reviewed studies that show the quality trap is real, Cloudflare’s 15 September default block, pay-per-use and licensing, and what readers and UK businesses should do now.
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