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Why wouldn't Google [replace with whoever becomes owner of leading AI platform] just hire experts themselves to generate for LLMs? Seems like the obvious next
by waboremo 3y ago
Why wouldn't Google [replace with whoever becomes owner of leading AI platform] just hire experts themselves to generate for LLMs?
Seems like the obvious next step. For clarity, I'm not saying I particularly like that future, but I have a hard time grasping why you think a paywall would be an obstacle here. Especially not for the wealthiest corporations (ever). Additionally because most paywalls to information have very hard time keeping information from leaking. Otherwise news orgs would have figured that out by now!
- ipaddr 3y agoPaywall sites allow google in but not you. That will change if no traffic is given.
- failuser 3y agoThis is just too expensive. Google is used to get all the content for free.
- waboremo 3y agoRight now, but if information becomes a serious obstacle for Google/AI platforms in general, it would easily spend billions to ensure control. It's not as if Google is a stranger to hiring experts to keep them away from other places!
- ghaff 3y agoI would assume that licensing content from paywalled books, research reports, etc. would be much more economical.
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- notatoad 3y agoI'd guess that google is currently the single largest funder of "content" in the world, between adsense on websites and payouts to YouTubers. They're certainly not getting the content for free. They're running ads against it, and making money on it, but they are also paying for it. It's a relatively small shift in their funding model to pay out to creators for their contributions to an AI model instead of paying out per pageview.
- LegitShady 3y ago> I'd guess that google is currently the single largest funder of "content" in the world, between adsense on websites and payouts to YouTubers. Those are advertisers funding the content, not google. google is just a middleman. They generate no content and pay none of they money, they just facilitate the transaction and take a cut.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoGoogle used to produce/fund content. See YouTube Originals.
- LegitShady 3y agoI've never seen a YouTube original I liked. It's all garbage.