[reenorap]

All content is going to go behind paywalls.

There is zero incentive or reason for content creators to let AI slurp their content for free and distribute it and get all the money from it.

Everything new will be licensed and if AI companies want access to it, they will need to pay for it, just like we will.

[_flux]

Will it help? AI authors will just then buy those subscriptions and in the big picture it won't cost that much.

[pixl97]

Of course this neglects why mostly free things that were posted on the internet generally won. Take Microsoft for example. All their money makers are licensed, yet at the same time you can download almost every single one for free and install it.

The people that go behind paywalls don't realize how much they'll have to spend on marketing to catch up to those that are open.

And that's only frames the current state, where models are very expensive to train. Once model training is close to the point where a group of individuals can afford it, it's pretty much game over for our current paradigm. The software police will be running around trying to play whack-a-mole on open weight models with people all over the world.

[reenorap]

Why would I create content that I don't get paid for and I don't even get credit for? Everyone who creates free content right now is simply doing the work of AI companies to make them more useful for free.

Search engines will cease to exist, so no one will search your content and then click on your link. AI will simply regurgitate your content and take the money for tokens or subscription and not acknowledge you at all.

[pixl97]

>There isn't a rule of economics that says better technology makes more, better jobs for horses. It sounds shockingly dumb to even say that

--Humans need not apply.

It's kind of funny that you think you're going to be making money writing software. If you lock up your software who exactly are you selling it to anyway? It's like you're thinking 25% through the situation then going "I can stay where I am and I don't have to change anything", and then crying later when it doesn't work.

What are you going to do, advertise in BYTE magazine (dead). On Instagram? With a sandwich board on a Seattle street corner? What does the software market even look like in the AI age.

And much like how Google and Amazon eat your lunch now whenever they way, successful AI companies will buy up some software ideas and feed them to their models (which will be stolen later by other models). Anyone that sees your software will mock up a useful clone of it pretty quick the first time they see it. And foreign AI companies will just right out steal it.

You're right you won't create content that you don't get paid for, you just won't be creating anything while competing with the other unemployed masses for strawberry picking jobs.

[rule_of_cool]

buying into the marketing I see? Might as well making stealing easier just cause they will probably manage to steal everything in the end is an interesting thought.

Like yes if the AI thing works out the theft will be retroactively okay because the people that stole will now be the ruling class, but assuming AI models will write good code one day and do all work, when that hasn't happened yet is just repeating corporate propaganda while presuming being convinced you are some sort of cynical truth tell that's telling it how it is.

[handzhiev]

I don't think this will happen. If most content goes behind a paywall, releasing content for free will again become a valuable source of attention. It used to be so before the web got filled with so much free content that it lost any value.

[reenorap]

I disagree. AI will slurp their content so quickly that no one will notice.