AI and the tyranny of the data commons

I am here to tell you the sad but true story of the demise of the sharing economy. Remember how we were told, back in the 1990s and 2000s, that we were contributing to the creation of the largest commons known to humanity? Well, to paraphrase The Lord of the Rings, we were all of us deceived, for another ring was made. Artificial intelligence (AI) is making that clearer than ever. The free data we generated by spending thousands of hours on Big Tech's platforms has been appropriated and converted into training data for AI models.