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Why? I wouldn't pay you for marginally improving my baking skills either.

It is an interesting question. I would have no qualms paying for a textbook or university course for curated learning (worth noting OpenAI has paid datasets too), but paying for (or being paid for) relatively diffuse and low quality content through hobby blogs seems at odds with my expectations as an individual, and as a society we were never (en masse) concerned about things like Google's search excerpt answers...




But one of my unstated goal is to improve "YOUR" baking skills. That pays me off in satisfaction nevertheless. You might refer me somewhere later on so that pays off or I might have some ads that you might see so that's there.

With a gardened proprietary paywalled model, what I wrote ends up as some constituent of giant arrays of floating point numbers which I must pay to use.


Because perfect information transfer isn’t usually possible by a human reading a book or website, whereas computer systems can usually do that.

If humans could perfectly remember information, I’m sure copyright would be very different.


But a model learning from data and reproducing it in some fashion is absolutely not perfect information transfer.


But humans can memorize information, it's always a possibility for any work. Meanwhile, LLMs don't record things the way computer systems normally do.


You might not pay, but ad revenue might.




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