The rise of ChatGPT and its rivals is undermining the economic bargain of the internetIllustration: Nick LittleAround the beginning of last year, Matthew Prince started receiving worried calls from the bosses of big media companies. They told Mr Prince, whose firm, Cloudflare, provides security infrastructure to about a fifth of the web, that they faced a grave new online threat. “I said, ‘What, is it the North Koreans?’,” he recalls. “And they said, ‘No. It’s AI’.”Explore moreArtificial intelli...