AI didn’t break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume

jpl99 @jpl99@social.vivaldi.net When we erased copyright enforcement for AI systems, we finally completed the Internet's split into two distinct areas:– The Free-For-All Quarry: Anything reachable by an HTTP request is now unregulated public domain for corporations. Authorship, metadata and reciprocal obligations have been stripped away by automated AI scrapers.– The Gated Communities: Anything behind a login and a strict user agreement is still protected by contract or trade secret law.The dream of the open web where we used to publish freely to each other or to the global common good — trusting that intellectual property law would enforce a fair social contract — has essentially disappeared. #OpenWeb #AI #LLM #IntellectualProperty #CopyrightLaw #LLM_Criticism 04/06/2026, 11:39 2 boosts 0 favorites This is a diagnosis of a small shift, but it’s trapped inside a narrow, liberal property lens on what the internet is and was supposed to be. What’s being described as a “split” between a…