The internet have given man the information age, the great liberation from ignorance. That being said, the data for sale business model is a scam.
Business like Amazon or Apple that USE the internet are obviously backbones of commerce, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about monetizing searches
for "funny cat videos". Internet search engines where you, the human, is in charge of sorting out all the popup ads, paid placement junk etc is basically as dead as the Yellow Pages for those old enough to remember.
AI has replaced you, the web surfer, already. Tell it what you want and you'll get a clear, short, concise answer. The current pay for play model cannot compete.
Okay, so like with any other tectonic shift of industry there's gonna be changes that include winners and losers.
The winners are you. You get to actually get the answer instead of a storm of popup ads and garbage information. The losers are ironically, the data sellers, who are, ironically again, largely in charge of these new AI date distribution models.
So how do they keep going? AI job replacement. But again, we're gonna be looking at another Dot Com bust with these because the current business model is the same as the business model at the dawn of the internet which was "Ask not what the internet will do, ask what the internet will NOT do. Now buy a million shares of Schlunk, the new digital cash to replace actual currency taken at these 3 store locations worldwide!"
So if you're a billionaire data company I'd start working on getting something actually done. The industries that are ripe for replacement are:
1- Legal. Lawyers get a lot of money for acting as data brokers, that's all law is and they get a lot of money. Now just like computers didn't eliminate the need for paper by eliminating typewriters, neither will data law banks completely replace humans.
2- Medical. The nurse will be elevated to primary care giver like never before because they're already the ones who collect the data and administer the treatment as determined by the doctor. Doctors will still be in place as overseers, but that data bank has all the knowledge of all the doctors in all of history. To use a common meme, the doctor might say "I don't think your 1 hour surfing the web is equivalent to my 6 years of medical school" to which the AI might say "I don't think your 6 years of medical school is equivalent to my 6 trillion hours of combined medical date accumulation."
3- Etc.
So the idea to wrap up is to move on from the largely fake business model of companies like Facebook who get their revenue selling ads that are going to be replaced by AI, so get that AI out there actually doing something besides being the new Yellow Pages which are also obsolete.