Further damage to small businesses as AI-generated 'ghost stores' take over

News Corp’s National Technology Reporter Eilidh Sproul-Mellis discusses booming AI "ghost stores" and their impact on Australian consumers and businesses. “It has an impact for consumers, obviously, but it does have a real impact for businesses too, because, you know, businesses that are genuinely hand-making goods or manufacturing things in Australia … that comes at a cost,” Ms Sproul-Mellis told News24. “They’re also finding it really frustrating that they are competing while having all the overheads of running a business in Australia: all the rent, paying staff, while these people are making money and scamming people in the process.”