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The shift is that the content itself now has tangible value. So far it's been the attention of the users that has been monetized, primarily via advertising. B
by TigeriusKirk 3y ago
The shift is that the content itself now has tangible value.
So far it's been the attention of the users that has been monetized, primarily via advertising.
But now the content generated by the users has value as input into AI training sets. And AI companies are scrambling to gather as much as they can as rapidly as they can.
The data itself, not the attention of the users, is what is now being harvested.
The companies hosting the data are right to intervene, there's no reason to allow incredibly well-funded AI organizations hoover it all up for free.
Where it's going wrong is how the social companies are intervening. Their goal is correct, their methods are not.
- blowski 3y agoAnd yet, by shrinking the reach of posts, there must be far less content being generated. Isn't that the tightrope social networks have always been walking?
- imartin2k 3y agoThis seems to become this year’s biggest unanticipated second order effect of LLMs: UGC and organic human-generated content in general is suddenly valuable in a different way than before. This should totally accelerate the move of “quality content” behind paywalls or signup walls. Only commodity content, low quality content, and AI-generated content will remain on the open web.