FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

I thought folks here might find this article by @niccolove interesting, especially given some other recent, high-profile FOSS infrastructure topics (ex. the Freedesktop migration) and the continued hype machine around AI.

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Fascinating - and very dangerous.

I’m curious if the overall idea is like Skynet - it’ll scrape and possibly destroy a swathe of internet in the process, to become the more dominant AI which has all the content.

It’s the ultimate viral pandemic.