> Meta believes the dollars at the end of the AI race will be in walled gardens

Will those walls keep AI-generated content out, or will they keep the people outside from accessing the AI-generated content in the garden?

If it's the first, somebody should tell them the slop's already up to their navels and they probably shouldn't be helping people generate more of it.

If it's the second, then the models that supply the content to the garden must have some kind of uniqueness/value, because otherwise you could get identical content from anywhere.

This is a genuine question, because I don't understand the logic here.

(I had assumed it was more like hardware companies funding open source way back when - Commoditize Your Complement).