– MIT Media Lab researcher Shayne Longpre, on the swift balkanisation of the internet thanks to rampant AI data harvesting. In a new study published by the MIT-led Data Provenance Initiative, Longpre and team looked at 14,000 web domains included in three commonly used AI training sets and discovered an “emerging crisis in consent” that calls for “new tools to give website owners more precise ways to control the use of their data.”