[jmole]

> Imagine an AI engine like a block of swiss cheese. New, original content that fills one of the holes in the AI engine’s block of cheese is more valuable than repetitive, low-value content that unfortunately dominates much of the web today.

Great statement in theory - but in practice, the whole people-as-a-service industry for AI data generation is IMO more damaging to the knowledge ecosystem than open data. e.g. companies like pareto.ai

"Proprietary data for pennies on the dollar" is the late-stage capitalism equivalent of the postdoctoral research trap.