The more I think about AI data ownership, the more I feel we're asking the wrong question.
Most discussions focus on:
"Should contributors get rewarded?"
Of course they should.
The harder question is:
"What happens when every human action becomes financially optimized?"
If every click, conversation, review, correction, or piece of knowledge generates rewards, people may start creating content for incentives rather than usefulness.
And that's where things get interesting.
OpenLedger's Proof of Attribution isn't just testing a new reward model.
It's testing whether we can build a data economy that rewards contribution without turning human attention into another extractable resource.
Maybe the future isn't about paying for more data.
Maybe it's about identifying genuinely valuable data.
What do you think becomes scarcer in the AI economy:
Data or human attention?
