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In my experience at least, most of the best content is not produced due to financial incentives. I'd go so far as to say that those financial incentives slowly

In my experience at least, most of the best content is not produced due to financial incentives. I'd go so far as to say that those financial incentives slowly but surely erode everything they touch, whether it is Youtube influencers chasing ad dollars or Hollywood releasing Avengers: Fast and Furious XVII. I like my large capital projects like Game of Thrones as much as the next guy but they're not at risk from LLMs to begin with and the people who create the best content tend to do it for the love of it hence the starving artist stereotype. People want to create and whether they do it by putting paper to pen or by curating LLM output until it says or draws what they want it to. I'd rather all this effort spent on worrying about LLMs be spent on promoting the arts and entertainment for its own sake, so it can be funded outside the usual ratrace bullshit. The hard part is going to be filtering through the content anyway, so why not curate it at the creator level with an extensive arts patronage program!

wwweston 3y ago
> In my experience at least, most of the best content is not produced due to financial incentives. The best content is produced with a vision in mind that goes well-beyond financial incentives and may even be produced in spite of no apparent prospects for reward. But the more mechanisms you remove for a potential payoff, the more you guarantee that even those who create great work in spite of odds and adversity will face continued difficulty doing it again because they'll have to do something else besides the time they invest in creation in order to get the necessary resources for living the rest of life. You want good stuff, you reward people for making good stuff, or you will get less of it. > why not curate it at the creator level with an extensive arts patronage program! Patronage is better than nothing but interrupts the proportional economic connection between engagement/consumption and reward, and tends to make the relevant rat races more political and/or social.

wwweston 3y ago

> In my experience at least, most of the best content is not produced due to financial incentives. The best content is produced with a vision in mind that goes well-beyond financial incentives and may even be produced in spite of no apparent prospects for reward. But the more mechanisms you remove for a potential payoff, the more you guarantee that even those who create great work in spite of odds and adversity will face continued difficulty doing it again because they'll have to do something else besides the time they invest in creation in order to get the necessary resources for living the rest of life. You want good stuff, you reward people for making good stuff, or you will get less of it. > why not curate it at the creator level with an extensive arts patronage program! Patronage is better than nothing but interrupts the proportional economic connection between engagement/consumption and reward, and tends to make the relevant rat races more political and/or social.