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> Any information that requires something approximating a full-time job worth of effort to produce will necessarily go away

Many people put more effort into their hobbies than into their "full time" job.

Some of it will go away but perhaps without the expectation that you can earn money more people will share freely.

> While some must derive satisfaction from increasing the total sum of human knowledge, others are probably blogging to engage with readers or build their own personal brand, neither of which is served by AI scrapers.

We don't have to make all business models that someone might want possible though.

> Wikipedia is an interesting case. I still don’t entirely understand why it works, though I think it’s telling that 24 years later no one has replicated their success.

Actually this model is quite common. There are tons of sources of free information curated by volunteers - most are just too niece to get to the scale of Wikipedia.



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