The New Information Borders

Short summary

Different organizations selectively blocking AI crawlers through robots.txt and licensing deals is fragmenting what information AI systems can retrieve in real-time. If exclusive licensing becomes standard, this fragmentation will also affect training data, creating divergent knowledge bases for different AI systems. Divergent outputs may reflect information access gaps, not reasoning differences.

• •Selective crawler policies fragment AI access to information at retrieval time
• •If exclusive licensing becomes norm, training-time fragmentation could follow
• •Divergent AI answers may reflect information access, not reasoning quality

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