EXCLUSIVE: End of the Open Internet: Tech CEO Warns AI Will User in Era of Online ‘Protectionism’

Published on December 22, 2023

Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer—the world’s largest online marketplace for freelancers—has warned the development of artificial intelligence (AI) could bring about the end of the internet as we know it.  Mr. Barrie predicts that digital businesses and companies could close shop and introduce their version of online “protectionism” to shield against the destruction of their business models from AI. He said some of the world’s largest technology companies were already putting up barriers, or paywalls, to stop “scraping” from AI.  “The internet is definitely going to go ‘dark.’ The whole model of Google where everything’s open and public, and companies can scrape it to train their AI is going to change. They’ve already increased the pricing to access their data, Twitter’s done the same,” Mr. Barrie told the Epoch Times. ...

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