It's not just open source though. Many high quality sources of information are being (over-)exploited and hurt in the process. StackOverflow is effectively dead [0], the internet archive is being shunned by publishers [1], scientific journals are bombarded by fake papers [2] (and anecdotally, low-effort LLM-driven reviews), projects like OpenStreetMap incur significant costs due to scraping [3], and many more.
We went from data mining to data fracking.
[0]: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-...
[1]: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-inte...
[2]: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/16/wiley_journals_ai/
[3]: https://www.heise.de/en/news/OpenStreetMap-is-concerned-thou...