| > What does your example have to do with this situation? It's addressing GP's complaint about me pointing out the indirect and transactional nature of the interaction between information producer and consumer. > the author of content we're discussing will never get paid by anyone That's... not my problem? Bear with me here. > will never even get a bit if personal satisfaction from their analytics knowing last month x thousand people read that page and it hopefully helped them. Aha! So we're talking specifically about content creators that publish for free in hopes of maximizing a number on their analytics? That's healthy neither for them nor the society at large. Or you mean people publishing content for free to make money off ads? Yeah, I don't mind that content to disappear entirely. Note that outside of web publishing, it was never the expectation of an author to have any idea how many people read their work, much less get paid for every single "read event". They only got a lump sum or a fraction of first sale of a printed work - but had no insight or control over further circulation of parts of entirety of their works. Being able to resell your books or magazines, or give or lend it to friends, or borrow some from a library, are all good things. All that was true before AI, and people found reasons to write new books, or to publish quality content on-line, for free and without advertising or telemetry. LLMs don't change that. If anything, they may reduce readership, not publication. > I think much information will retreat to places like Discord or locked down login only versions of sites like Stackoverflow. This has already been happening for the past couple years; LLMs, again, don't change anything here. |