Generative AI is shifting the web from an attention economy to an intention economy. The consequence is an informationally dense 'thin web' that threatens to fragment shared meaning through atomization. As content becomes abundant and agents become first-class actors, the platform-economy model, powered by artificial scarcity of data, centralized moderation, surveillance, and gatekeeping, begins to break down. This business model collapses when the main resource, information, is no longer sca...

Generative AI is shifting the web from an attention economy to an intention economy. The consequence is an informationally dense 'thin web' that threatens to fragment shared meaning through atomization. As content becomes abundant and agents become first-class actors, the platform-economy model, powered by artificial scarcity of data, centralized moderation, surveillance, and gatekeeping, begins to break down. This business model collapses when the main resource, information, is no longer sca...