It's adorable that people are only slowly realizing that Google search at least fed sites traffic, while chat AI thingies slurp up and summarize content, which they anonymize and feed back, leaving the slurped sites traffic-less and dying. But, innovation.

It is, in a way, a tragedy of the commons problem, with no easy way to police "over grazing" of the information commons, leading to automated over-usage and eventual ecosystem collapse.

There is, btw, a terrific new updating of Ostrom and others' work out on the ToC, arguing that in the real world it can lead much faster to what it calls a mass of catastrophic poverty (many have-nots) and oligarchs (a few haves).

See:

Generic catastrophic poverty when selfish investors exploit a degradable common resource https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.221234?af=R#d20123427e6469s