This article argues that AI did not break the internet, but rather amplified existing issues caused by large tech companies, referred to as "dotcons." The author contends that these companies have been eroding the web's social fabric for decades by prioritizing ownership, extraction, and legal enclosure over norms like reciprocity, trust, and sharing. AI's ability to scrape data is seen as an acceleration of this existing logic, not a new problem. The piece calls for rebuilding social and technical spaces that foster contribution and reciprocity, rather than relying on stronger IP laws. AI
IMPACT Argues AI's data scraping logic is an extension of existing tech company practices, not a novel threat to the open web.
RANK_REASON The cluster consists of opinion pieces discussing the impact of AI on the internet, framing AI as an amplifier of existing issues rather than a root cause.
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