#linktax — Public Fediverse posts

““You could essentially call this the Wikipedia-ization of a lot of information, you’re bringing together Wikipedia-style answers to an infinite number of questions, and that’s just going to nuke many corners of the open web.”

Bryan Goldberg, the chief executive of BDG, which publishes lifestyle and culture websites like Bustle, Nylon and Romper describes in this strange way the impact of generative AI on publishing.

Such a strange way to frame it!
And a #weaksignal that the copyright wars of the 00s will reopen soon.
But also hints that Wikipedia has a role, and obligation - to shape these new flows are knowledge production and consumption.

The NYTimes piece, which covers publishers’ reactions to chatbots, hints that we can soon see a proposal similar to the #LinkTax proposal from the European copyright debate.

Of course, hyperlinks to pieces are very different from the strange path that a published piece undertakes, through a dataset and a model, to be regurgitated in some form as generative #AI output.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/business/media/publishers-chatbots-search-engines.html