I earn affiliate income on https://allaboutberlin.com. It allows me to help far more people by keeping everything free. It's been my main source of income for a few years now.
AI is changing the game - it halved my traffic - but so far it's still survivable. I intend to keep going until it's no longer tenable.
I had to make up for it. This year was a huge diversion from my usual work as I scrambled to monetise properly. I spent a lot more time on topics that bring revenue, instead of purely optimising for usefulness as in the past.
It had a good outcome though: I made a series of really useful upgrades to my health insurance advice. I am happy that the solution was to make a better product, not to squeeze my audience more.
Cool! Did AI halve your income as well? Or did it just affect the traffic (low quality traffic)?