[rockzom]

Some part of me views this moment in history as such a force multiplier that it seems myopic to squabble about the nickels and dimes we'd get for our bird sounds and cave paintings. I wish I was smarter and already caught up enough to take advantage of all of this.

I tried resisting the urge to stop myself from even posting this comment, but I'm willing to make an ass of myself so that somebody who knows more about this than me can try to steel-man this for me.

What do we do? The penny is the smallest bit of USD we have, and hyper-fractional parts that incrementally make up an unimaginably large whole are now the world we live in. It's difficult to imagine a world where you receive 175 billion royalty transactions of 1/1,000,000,000th of a $0.01 in a given year, but maybe that's a reasonable scenario to think about when it comes to the couple of bucks an average teen or adult should get from their presumed default contributions to large language models.

Remember trying to hit that minimum threshold payment for Google Adsense with your Blogspot, then finally getting your check after 15 years? If nothing else, we shouldn't blithely tolerate that again, because we didn't sign up for this. (We signed up for stuff even worse than this, technically, but in those cases at least we clicked "I Agree.")