Thanks to 'a', we may start seeing the kind of data scraping that we never saw before and would definitely see new measures/policies by platforms.
However as you rightly pointed out, over the years we have already gravitated towards paywalled content and private communities. So the change that could happen because of more and more training of such models would be incremental and slow
Also at least for the foreseeable future, the rate at which generation of these models will happen will be much lower than the rate at which these models will be used to create content. So the impact of AI at least in the foreseeable future might be more on "Relevance of Web" than on "Openness of Web".
Basically there are two sides to this story
a) the generation/supply of Foundational Models
b) the demand/usage of these models
Thanks to 'a', we may start seeing the kind of data scraping that we never saw before and would definitely see new measures/policies by platforms.
However as you rightly pointed out, over the years we have already gravitated towards paywalled content and private communities. So the change that could happen because of more and more training of such models would be incremental and slow
Also at least for the foreseeable future, the rate at which generation of these models will happen will be much lower than the rate at which these models will be used to create content. So the impact of AI at least in the foreseeable future might be more on "Relevance of Web" than on "Openness of Web".