[kweingar]

> What's a news outlet worth paying for? who actually pays for content online? who knows how to block all ads and didn't do that?

I don’t know how far we’re going to get if we not only expect volunteers to supply everything the model needs in order to be up-to-date and useful, but also expect access to the model to be free of charge and ad-free.

That’s a pretty massive amount of man-hours, compute, and R&D effort to expend for literally no return on investment.

> we will have again people with real world experience writing knowledge or opinions in their free time

We already have this now in the form of a bored knowledge-worker blogger class. It’s not nearly enough to provide up-to-date info for a chatbot, and I don’t see how the implosion of journalism as an industry will lead to more people spending their free time writing for no pay. If anything, it will drive more knowledge behind pay walls like Substack, which will be inaccessible to the chatbot anyway.