[tonyedgecombe]

>More than likely, people return to publishing content because they love the subject matter and not because it is an angle to “create content” or “gain followers” or show ads.

Why would you do that if you thought it was going to be hoovered up by some giant corporation and spat out again for $20 a month with no attribution.

[jaydenmilne]

"Writing is its own reward"

― Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

"… and now its Sam Altman’s reward too!"

― Jayden Milne (2025). https://jayd.ml/about/

I think both are true.

[MOARDONGZPLZ]

From my post:

[B]ecause they love the subject matter and not because it is an angle to “create content” or “gain followers” or show ads.

[anton-c]

Because they like to make stuff more than they value a subscription. I'm gonna write music no matter what happens to it.

[tonyedgecombe]

I understand that, I’m in the middle of a project right now that has no commercial value to me. What I’m not going to do is offer it up to Google et al so they can profit from it.

[coldpie]

> What I’m not going to do is offer it up to Google et al so they can profit from it.

What are you going to do with it? If you publish it, the law currently allows Google to hoover it up and there's nothing you can do about it.

[chankstein38]

Why publish? If people aren't going to click into it anyway and read it, why not just do it and write it up for yourself? I've been doing this for years (in a way, haven't quite worked writing it up into that) but I explore on my own constantly and try things just with me and my fiance. I still hope to share it someday but this person is right. You don't _have_ to do anything with it once you've done it. You can just work on a project and enjoy the process and then do nothing.

In that instance, google loses value over time because less and less valuable content is published because there's no point because people may read it as an AI summary but probably aren't going to share their own findings or discuss with you anyway.

[tuesdaynight]

It's so easy to say that when your income is not dependable on writing music.