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> as though traffic didn't have to do with the people out there publishing valuable stuff on the internet today, or as though such people don't exist

Even if there are people, today, that do publish valuable stuff on the internet only because (or thanks to) the expected traffic (either own ads or selling ad space), I claim that without that traffic, there will be others who will be publishing valuable stuff, and the traffic incentivized garbage more than the valuable stuff.

Finally, if that's not the case, then in order for the LLM to be useful, it needs valuable training data. So this problem solves itself - competitive LLM company will need to pay for the data directly, and for me, that model incentivizes valuable stuff more than garbage.