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I don’t think it’s a “trap”.

Recipes are not copyrightable (in the US not sure about elsewhere)

But a story with a recipe is. Creators are trying to protect their income first and foremost



LLM generates stories aren't copyrightable either, and I doubt ad-financed clickbait farms would care about suing each other anyway, this is just SEO and audience manipulation.




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