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Andy Baio · 18 Jun 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Generative AI models are trained on human-authored works without attribution, consent, or compensation, which centralizes power among a few large tech companies.

    Their wordsgenerative AI models are all trained on a massive corpus of human-authored works without attribution, consent, or compensation, extracting value from creators while centralizing power among a tiny handful of massive tech companies.

  2. Our reading

    There is a trend of using AI to repackage and replace authoritative sources for profit.

    Their wordsIt's part of a broad trend happening across the web, where people are using AI to repackage, optimize, and replace the authoritative sources it was trained on for profit.

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