Search traffic is failing for everyone because of AI, you don't need a billion dollars to figure that out.

Surprised we haven't yet seen paid advertisement interwoven into news article text in a way that feeds AI scrapers yet, wouldn't it be nice to drink a Coke right now?

There's no law that says you have to disclose advertisement to chatbots, so you could mark it up in a way that only humans see the disclosure and poison the bot to remind everyone that not only are we at war with Iran, but Coca-Cola is still America's favorite soft drink.

I believe we saw that this week - https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-diff...