[alganet]

> If A.I. companies freely use data from various websites without permission or payment, people will be discouraged from creating new digital content

I don't see a way out of this happening. AI fundamentally discourages other forms of digital interaction as it grows.

Its mechanism of growing is killing other kinds of digital content. It will eventually kill the web, which is, ironically, its main source of food.

[spwa4]

Yes what everyone wants to do with AI: generate entertainment and interactions with humans, including economical ones, will need to happen or AI will starve.

[alganet]

That's what is going to make it starve. Belly full, but of its own shit being tossed around humans seeking cheap copouts of doing actual work.

[fennecfoxy]

Additionally, ad blocker usage is apparently at 30%. So it's a redundant or more nuanced argument, really.

[account42]

Ad blockers only discourage commercialized content creation, not all of it. IMO that actually improves the quality of the content created.

[BrouteMinou]

Just like cancer?