The Transformation of the Internet into Walled Gardens and the Decline in Venture Capital Funding

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This chapter explores how recent actions taken by social media platforms to restrict access to content have transformed the internet into walled gardens and raised concerns about control, disappearance of content, and challenges for websites dependent on user-generated content.

Yesterday OpenAI announced a major effort for what they call 'Superalignment' to align superintelligent AI with human intent and values. The company is dedicating 20% of its compute resources to the project and its being led by their chief scientist and co-founder. Before that on the Brief: Over the weekend, Google updated its policies to basically say that it's allowed to train AI on any public data we put online. At the same time, platforms like Twitter and Reddit are racing to keep other companies away from the data created on them. On today's Brief, NLW looks at how the rise of AI models are leading companies to cut off access to their data and create fewer commons and more walled gardens. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/