Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Smalltime spammers looked at AI and thought, "OK, I can generate as much botshit as I ...
Smalltime spammers looked at AI and thought, "OK, I can generate as much botshit as I want on demand for free. Science fiction magazines pay $0.10/word. So if I generate a *billion* words, I'll get *$100 million*." But that's not how any of that works: sf magazines don't buy botshit, and even if they did, the entire market for short fiction adds up to what Sam Altman spends on a single designer t-shirt.
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