Most news is still free. Paywalls are easily bypassed by archive websites, and that’s not because news websites don’t know that this is possible. Youtube is usable through Invidious and yt-dlp and what have you, not because Youtube can’t detect you using an alternative frontend, but because there’s no benefit in spending effort to prevent those methods because no significant amount of users use that stuff.
With companies free to take other people’s work without attribution or payment, companies owning content will lose their competitive advantage if their competitors sell better data sets, models, and generic data as a whole.
If you think things are bad now, wait until companies actually start caring about content being ripped. We’ve already seen this (remember the Reddit meltdown?), Youtube seems to be following in Reddit’s footsteps, and the rest will follow.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Google’s remote attestation tech will find its way back into browsers in a couple of years.
Corporations have been trying to control more and more of what users do and how they do it for longer than AI has been a “threat”. I wouldn’t say AI changes anything. At most, maybe, it might accelerate things a little. But if I had to guess, the corpos are already moving as fast as they can with locking everything down for the benefit of no one, but them.
So… You say nothing will change.
Most news is still free. Paywalls are easily bypassed by archive websites, and that’s not because news websites don’t know that this is possible. Youtube is usable through Invidious and yt-dlp and what have you, not because Youtube can’t detect you using an alternative frontend, but because there’s no benefit in spending effort to prevent those methods because no significant amount of users use that stuff.
With companies free to take other people’s work without attribution or payment, companies owning content will lose their competitive advantage if their competitors sell better data sets, models, and generic data as a whole.
If you think things are bad now, wait until companies actually start caring about content being ripped. We’ve already seen this (remember the Reddit meltdown?), Youtube seems to be following in Reddit’s footsteps, and the rest will follow.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Google’s remote attestation tech will find its way back into browsers in a couple of years.
Corporations have been trying to control more and more of what users do and how they do it for longer than AI has been a “threat”. I wouldn’t say AI changes anything. At most, maybe, it might accelerate things a little. But if I had to guess, the corpos are already moving as fast as they can with locking everything down for the benefit of no one, but them.