I’d argue that right now, generative AI companies are actually doing what I’d have thought to be impossible: It’s even worse than the Elsevier business model. At least Elsevier isn’t randomly hoovering up every single bit of research data and papers on the internet without permission and monetizing it.
This is one of those bits of collateral damage: In an earlier and more innocent era, writing about weird bits of domain knowledge or records of various technical misadventures on the Internet felt great; you’d hope some people would find it and it’d help or amuse them. Now it feels rather bleak - you know all your writings will be ingested by AI companies and used against people.
I’d argue that right now, generative AI companies are actually doing what I’d have thought to be impossible: It’s even worse than the Elsevier business model. At least Elsevier isn’t randomly hoovering up every single bit of research data and papers on the internet without permission and monetizing it.
This is one of those bits of collateral damage: In an earlier and more innocent era, writing about weird bits of domain knowledge or records of various technical misadventures on the Internet felt great; you’d hope some people would find it and it’d help or amuse them. Now it feels rather bleak - you know all your writings will be ingested by AI companies and used against people.