Mom needs something very like a grocery store to get food from. LLM training does not need HTTP, HTTPS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, hyperlinks, banner ads, cookies, and so on. Yes the web was a convenient source to find a lot of text but it's not the only source.
It's obviously not even close to the same logic. One obvious difference is that "mom" (who gets their dinner from "mom"? Not me) pays the grocery store for the food. If I get all my meals via DoorDash, the farmers still get paid. If I get all my news via LLMs rather than a subscription to the NYT, the NYT and its investigative reporters get no revenue from me.
Browsing "the web" has been painful for years thanks to SEO and ads. Most people already spend their time in walled gardens, selectively jumping out to specific linked sites. Does AI fundamentally change this, or is it just a better front-end for the search engine?
What makes you think ads and the equivalent to SEO aren't coming for the LLM products? These companies are going to have to turn a profit eventually...
That's your answer? We don't need the internet anymore because we have books?
My local library is great. But they don't have all books, like reference information about a particular manufacturer's product. And they're not open at 2am. And you have to go there.
Behold, this is the future. We've improved computers so much going to the library is the answer for getting information. Correction: getting correct information.
The OP is claiming that no one is interested in his article, just the "information" that can be harvested in it. He has committed the rather obvious fallacy of equating the web with web search. There are real risks to information providers, but that's not all the web is.
Precisely. Thus people will stop going there. Which leads to people not creating content there. Which kinda stops the very model genAI has used to grow.
Imagine AI telling you its safe and proper to water bath can meat for food preservation, and what that actually means when you eat the canned meat following those directions. Same goes for mushrooms, or anything else that might literally kill you.
We've reached a point where AI is not accountable for harms, while being capable of killing people through selective curation of information it provides.
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Seems like the same logic to me. Isn't the Web where the information came from?
But here the mom is a robot taking produce for free. Not a good business for grocery stores.
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Sadly, most of the stuff most people want to verify is "breaking news" and "gossip".
Did the pope really wear a puffy white coat? Does it really matter?
My local library is great. But they don't have all books, like reference information about a particular manufacturer's product. And they're not open at 2am. And you have to go there.
Behold, this is the future. We've improved computers so much going to the library is the answer for getting information. Correction: getting correct information.
You want the ability to look at 4-5 sources, vet them, and draw your own conclusions.
We've reached a point where AI is not accountable for harms, while being capable of killing people through selective curation of information it provides.