In citing this item, Alan Levine quotes this bit: "The internet is now under unprecedented pressure from the AI companies that have been unleashed by the very openness and scale the internet enabled. There is a real risk that the information ecosystems that have formed around the open web over the past two decades will be devoured by the generative AI systems they have helped bring into being." My focus is on the false dilemma that is offered as a consequence: in one scenario, "levy- or tax-based redistribution tied to the commercial deployment of AI services, combined with sustained investment in public AI infrastructure", and in the other scenario, "turn information into a tradable input once again... moving content behind paywalls, restricting crawling and enforcing licensing conditions through private technical infrastructure." Both of these are essentially commercial solutions, and I guess they are the only options if all you can imagine is a commercial internet. But surely we can be more imaginative than that. See also.
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