Post

One thing that’s happening already because of LLMs: work by experts that would previously be funded by publishing educational materials is simply no longer being produced. “I can’t chart a path to financial viability producing an artifact of my knowledge that exists nowhere else.”

“If I publish a new Cantonese textbook with entirely new presentation formats and pedagogical strategy it’ll be copyright laundered through an LLM instantly and I will be unable to recoup my investment.” If you want that book now you have to give my friend a grant.