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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Kind of interesting to see mainstream tech commentary come around to the idea that Google's search was built around a social contract that they've now broken

Here's how I described it three years ago, in 2023,

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/tech-broke-the-webs-social-contract/#with-ai-tech-has-broken-the-web-s-social-contract

> Our incentive recedes in lock-step with the increasing dominance of generative AI content. As it recedes, fewer and fewer people and organisations will contribute to the digital commons. More and more stuff will be locked behind a paywall.