But on the other hand every single model is competing in the sense that there's only one world to fill up with slop. Maybe in a few years LinkedIn will have 10

But on the other hand every single model is competing in the sense that there's only one world to fill up with slop. Maybe in a few years LinkedIn will have 10 times more AI slop, but that won't make either LinkedIn or the AI companies 10x more valuable. I guess my point is that the models, IRL, salt the earth. Since model use became common people have started using them to cheat on their work as students, cheat on job interviews, cheat their duties to scientific integrity, and generally stop building and sharing communal knowledge. Why wouldn't you cheat and steal instead of improving yourself when you're told that in the future your skill and intelligence will be utterly and completely negligible compared to that of The Machine. This is already costing society trillions of dollars in practical damages. OpenAI is one of the world's biggest polluters, but in the past there has never been a need for legal protections against indsutrial-scale polluting of the well of human knowledge so we're still catching up. Nevertheless the fact that the unit economics look even this good is because they're dumping the real costs onto society itself.