🤔 Interesting

Turns out distilling all the world’s information into a friendly interface is worth something

I’m actually a guy who did this. 50k reputation on stack overflow, several tech blogs, reddit contributions and you know what? I love that LLMs are “stealing” my content. Most of us just do it for the love of the game and genuine belief that free information is good for the society. The only down side is not getting attribution credit which sucks but nothing compared to the benefits we all get.

Also no one’s capable of creating this is being replaced by an LLM. Let’s be clear here. If you are capable of educating complex tech subjects you are already in the top 10% of the market.

I’ve seen this argument in one form or another for years, and my response has never changed:

Either information on the internet is free for everyone, or it isn’t.

You don’t get to publish information for the public to access and then turn around and say that some people are allowed to use it while others are not, especially if the distinction is based on whether someone might make money from it.

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t claim information should be freely available and then try to restrict who can benefit from it.

Pick one. Either the information is free, or it isn’t.