Yes - previously there was some chance someone reading the ideas on the blog would contact the author to thank them, or ask them to collaborate.
replyWhen laundered via LLMs whose pretraining destroys all credit, that can't happen.
OK, and there's still some chance, right? I don't understand why you say it can't happen any more.
replyIf all you care about is financial, expected value of someone reading your blog and asking to collaborate is MUCH lower than odds of being part of some settlement in the future with these AI companies ingesting your data for training purposes.
replyFrom their phrasing I don't think the reward they're looking for is financial: more the emotional reward of knowing that someone else appreciated their ideas. I dunno how much less likely this is in the age of LLMs, though.
replyIn that case, more LLMs scraping the net will read your blog than people, that's almost a guarantee. And they'll immortalize your ideas at least in some sense, well after your hosting platform ends up gating your content, or GitHub pages is down indefinitely, or you forget to renew your domain.
replyI don’t think that’s fair. Some bloggers may hope for financial reward, but many just want recognition for their creativity, to attract a readership, or build a community around their work. Those are meaningful ends, apart from financial reward. What’s not meaningful is to perform free labor to produce the raw materials that a mega corp then goes on to monetize without any recognition.
replyhe's missing out on any attention that his shared thoughts would bring? and all benefits that might bring if he's good at what he does.
replyhe's training his cheap replacement - his thoughts will just be shared without attribution if someone is looking for that.
It feels like volunteering at an Amazon warehouse when you previously volunteered at a charity store. Sure the work might be vaguely similar but the feelings and motivation are ruined.
replyThat's a very striking - and depressing - comparison.
replyIs he? Why? People never read blog articles any more, and only consume content generated by AI?
reply> he's training his cheap replacement - his thoughts will just be shared without attribution if someone is looking for that.
So? That's not a harm.
The downside, as stated in the message, is implicitly supporting the LLM data ingestation pipeline by providing fresh content. It's not a direct harm in itself, but feels very tragedy of the commonsy
reply> The downside ... is implicitly supporting the LLM data ingestation pipeline by providing fresh content
replyI don't understand why that's a downside.
> It's not a direct harm in itself
I don't understand how it's a harm at all.
A lot of blogging especially in the tech space is driven by recruiting (startup blogs), or establishing a reputation as a thought leader (personal blogging, LinkedIn). So there were upsides that are now gone.
replyWhy are they gone?
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replyIs there some downside to the slave who is housed and fed for free? Are there any upside he would have were he not property of another man?
replyI would be grateful if you could explain how that is related to my question.
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