What’s of interest? Abundance vs. Scarcity: Who Controls the Internet After AI? | TechPolicy.Press
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As with any contested space, there are multiple competing visions for the future of the internet.
Over the course of 2025, it has become increasingly clear that the emergence of generative AI as a new socio-cultural technology is not only disrupting creative practices and business models, but is putting the sustainability of the entire information ecosystem under strain.
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.
The underlying diagnosis is by now relatively widely shared. Across the ecosystem, there is growing agreement that existing forms of public information production and distribution are unsustainable under conditions of increasingly AI-mediated access. From Wikimedia and cultural heritage institutions to fellow think tanks, coalitions of media organizations, and many other parts of the cultural and creative industries, warnings are multiplying that the arrangements sustaining information production are beginning to fail. Long-standing, if often fragile, reciprocal relationships are being eroded in the race to dominate new paradigms of information access. Broadly speaking, two distinct visions are emerging for how societies might respond to this moment.
Where is it?: Abundance vs. Scarcity: Who Controls the Internet After AI? | TechPolicy.Press
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