 Over the past month, a number of companies have partnered with content providers to get licenses to monetize training data. Yesterday we talked about Stack Overflows deal with Google. Google disclosed a partnership last week with Reddit. Ports alleged that the parent of Tumblr and WordPress automatic has been striking similar agreements with companies like Mid Journey and OpenAI. What if that data is user data? Because the other thing people don't like is when companies share their user data and monetize it. We see that in the world of advertising. There's a collision here between the fact that we have never adequately resolved the problem of who owns your own data. And for years I've been a proponent of Solid, which is an attempt by Tim Berners-Lee to create a system where you could have data under your control and still share it with people safely. It has not caught on. But the fact that we never solved that is now complicating this.