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Vercel counted 569 million GPTBot requests and 370 million from Anthropic's crawler in one month on its network, and found that none of the major AI crawlers render JavaScript. Cloudflare has blocked AI crawlers by default on new domains since 1 July 2025 and set new defaults on 15 September 2026. So plenty of sites are unreadable to their fastest-growing kind of visitor, and their owners do not know it.

ElevenLabs says voice creators on its platform have earned $22 million, across more than 10,400 creators, up from $11 million in November 2025. You clone your own voice, share it in the Voice Library, and when a paying user generates audio with it you get paid in cash. The default rate is around $0.03 per 1,000 characters, so a million characters of other people's audio is about $30. The total is real. The split is very uneven.

A $24.99 t-shirt on Etsy with $4.99 shipping brings in $29.98. Etsy's transaction fee, payment processing and listing fee take $3.30. The tee and its shipping from a Printify provider cost $16.26. About $10.42 is left, or $5.92 if the sale came through Etsy's Offsite Ads at 15%. The design and the mockup are cheap now. The fees stayed where they were, and Etsy requires you to say in the listing description that the item was made with AI.

Ask ChatGPT the same buying question twice and you will often get two different lists of sources. NJIT researchers measured it across 11,500 real queries and found AI Overview source sets overlapping at a Jaccard score of 0.66 between two runs of the identical query, against 0.78 for the ordinary results page. A newer paper ran 50 questions across 6 engines 15 times each and found five of the six still naming brands they had never named before at run 15. So a single audit is not a measurement, it is one draw from a distribution. The repetition is the product, and you can get it with a spreadsheet for nothing.

Almost every cold outreach guide starts with the copy, and that is the wrong end. Since 1 February 2024 Google has required SPF or DKIM, valid reverse DNS, TLS and a spam rate under 0.3% from every sender to Gmail, with SPF and DKIM together plus DMARC and one-click unsubscribe over 5,000 messages a day. Yahoo added a two-day unsubscribe rule. Microsoft started bouncing unauthenticated high-volume senders with 550 5.7.515. Since November 2025 Google has been ramping enforcement to temporary and permanent rejections. If the mail lands in spam, your best sentence has a reply rate of zero.

A 40-second AI avatar video costs about $2 to produce. On Fiverr the cheapest gigs selling that work start at $5. That gap is why the marketplace is crowded and why the marketplace is the wrong place to sell this, and the rest of this page is the version that works instead: the three videos a local business will actually pay for, the real per-video cost from my own render log, the public asking range read off live listings, and the three ways the deal goes wrong.