Sophie Bushwick: To train a large artificial intelligence model, you need lots of text and images created by actual humans. As the AI boom continues, it's becoming clearer that some of this data is ...

Berners-Lee cautioned that generative A.I. threatens the foundation of today’s web economy. SXSW Conference & Festivals via We have Tim Berners-Lee to thank for the World Wide Web. But these days, the ...

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This isn't a conspiracy theory or future prophecy. The idea of an internet dominated by AI-generated content is already happening and it doesn't look good. Ever since ChatGPT hit the market, ...

Artificial intelligence tech companies are refusing to abide by internet protocol when it comes to scraping data. Their ravenous scavenging behavior is upending the basic rules of the internet. On ...

When ChatGPT started the generative AI craze in November 2022, some users were frustrated that the knowledge cutoff date for its backing large language model (LLM) was September 2021. For a while it ...

The internet’s steady fall into the AI-garbled dumpster continues. As Vice reports, a recent study conducted by researchers at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Lab found that a “shocking amount of the ...

A lengthy stack of issues and macro trends is shaping the technology industry today, and high on the list is the prospect that the internet engine powering an estimated $16 trillion to $21 trillion ...

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In context: AI and zero-click searches are killing the business model of the web that has sustained content creators for the last 15+ years. It's an opinion that is shared by many, including ...