[nicbou]

But what would be the point?

There is a huge difference between giving eggs to your neighbours and sending them to a breakfast restaurant in another state. A connection is made between you and the neighbors. A community forms around it.

What would be the point of having a machine write your thoughts so they can shift a model's weights by infinitesimal amounts? How would that compare to building a small following, getting reader mail, and maybe even meeting a few of them?

My website is used as training data. I get nothing from it. The AI twists words I have carefully selected, misleads people, and strips me of the fruit of my labour. If I lost my entire audience, I would stop doing that work.

Moreover, there is a cost to producing high quality information. Research alone takes a long time when you're putting information online for the first time. I wouldn't do it for a vague chance of affecting the Zeitgeist.