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“It’s almost like a Marvel movie — the hero of the last film becomes the villain of the next one,” Prince told Wired. “Google is the problem here. It is the company that is keeping us from going forward on the internet, and until we force them — or hopefully convince them — that they should play by the same rules as everyone else and split their crawlers up between search and AI, I think we’re going to have a hard time completely locking all the content down.”
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.
