When pouring through available URLs for my website this one in particular jumped out as being perfectly descriptive of what I was doing. HiFiDIY: it literally screamed hobby projects and audio science.
I should have known right then and there that "hifi diy" would also be heavily used in various contexts ranging from Redit groups to forum boards and, in particular for commercial efforts at selling audio products. But, it was just too good to pass up so I naively convinced myself it would find a home among kindred sites.
The problems began within a couple of days. This was a hobby site with no commercial intent but Gemini, Google's AI, created a cock and bull story about how my website is the Canadian arm of a massive commercial effort to sell speaker parts and class d amplifiers from China. Literally nothing it reported about this site was true.
Within a week Google's search results had lumped it in with commercial DIY related sites and began featuring pictures of Amazon products under my listing.
The writing was on the wall by mid-January. It was a losing battle. There was nothing I could do to disassociate myself from the AI's hallucinations. This site was going to be permanently misrepresented on their searches and by their AI.
So as of today, they've won. The site has been taken down to protect its integrity... another victim of AI's enshitification of everything it touches.
You can View And Download a PDF file of the final interraction. It is every bit as scary as it is outrageous. The thing knows it's lying and it knows the consequences.