The demand for what digital publishers offer is real and robust, but the old methods of managing it will no longer work when cyberspace is inundated with bots designed to extract value wherever it can be found. Building an alternative will fall to the remaining advocates of the old open web.
BOSTON—At some point in the AI race, the internet came to be thought of as a coal mine. To those building frontier models with piles of GPUs and venture capital to burn, the open web is a vast raw seam of informational material just waiting for someone with enough computing power and cleverness to release its potential. Just send in the crawlers, haul out the data, and feed it all into the furnace of machine intelligence.
BOSTON—At some point in the AI race, the internet came to be thought of as a coal mine. To those building frontier models with piles of GPUs and venture capital to burn, the open web is a vast raw seam of informational material just waiting for someone with enough computing power and cleverness to release its potential. Just send in the crawlers, haul out the data, and feed it all into the furnace of machine intelligence.