I am facing this problem. It’s devastating to think that my job is now to prepare LLM training data. I am still doing useful work translating the real world into useful guides, just with half the audience and half the pay. If the trend continues, I will need to stop doing this full time.

Google and other AI companies effectively killed the incentive to share text on the internet. With it dies an important chunk of the independent web.

I have ahrefs blocked from accessing my webserver as they don't consistently respect robots.txt. I suggest everyone do the same.

> Searchers can get all the information they need to resolve their query without leaving the search results page.

The best thing Google has done in the last decade easily.