I keep coming across this idea that pretty soon all content is gonna be AI generated. People won't have a reason to make original content, and therefore, these AI models are cannibalizing themselves, because, of course, they need original content to continue training. And if we remove the incentives to create that original content, they won't have it to train on. And I actually think this is nonsense. So I just want to push back against this idea. First I'll take the easy version, the straw man of the argument, and then I'll do my best to steal man the argument, and still, I think, take it down. So the easy version is taking their claim at face value, no one will be creating content. So let's just imagine that world we're in the future. AI contents everywhere, and literally everyone stops creating original content. These companies desperately need original content to train on, and there'
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I keep coming across this idea that pretty soon all content is gonna be AI generated. People won't have a reason to make original content, and therefore, these AI models are cannibalizing themselves, because, of course, they need original content to continue training. And if we remove the incentives to create that original content, they won't have it to train on. And I actually think this is nonsense. So I just want to push back against this idea. First I'll take the easy version, the straw man of the argument,...
n strung together in a particular order? No, they could easily generate that themselves. Do they need more examples of good sentence structure? No. They have trillions of pages of that. The actual value in original content is in new information. So the question is, will people be sharing new information less frequently in this world dominated by AI. Content? All the evidence I can see points at new information sharing accelerating. It is already so much easier for someone with truly novel, insightful ideas to ge...
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The creator argues AI will not eliminate original content because the valuable part for models is new information/ideas, and AI can help people distribute those ideas at scale.
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n strung together in a particular order? No, they could easily generate that themselves. Do they need more examples of good sentence structure? No. They have trillions of pages of that. The actual value in original content is in new information. So the question is, will people be sharing new information less frequently in this world dominated by AI. Conte...
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