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So far the whole business model of Silicon Valley since social media has been to monetize other peoples' content given out for free. The whole empire is built on this.

I wonder if this is going to come to an end through a combination of social media fatigue, social media fragmentation, and open source LLMs just giving it all back to us for free. LLMs are analogous to a "JPEG for ideas" so they're just lossy compression blobs of human thought expressed through language.




> So far the whole business model of Silicon Valley since social media has been to monetize other peoples' content given out for free. The whole empire is built on this.

It cannot die soon enough




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