“It’s almost like a Marvel movie — the hero of the last movie becomes the villain of the next one,” Prince told Wired. “Google is the problem here. It’s the company that’s stopping us from moving forward on the internet, and until we force them — or hopefully convince them — to play by the same rules as everyone else and split their crawlers between search and AI, I think it’s going to be hard to completely lock down all content.”
Prince hopes that industry pressure and possible future regulation will lead to new and fairer business models. Where AI companies pay for licensed content instead of scraping it for free.
