Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?
It is not breaking the ad-based model—it’s breaking open information sharing culture as we know it.<p>Yesterday: 1) You do research, you publish a book, you write some posts. 2) People discover  your work and  <i>you</i> personally, they visit your posts and subscribe to you. 3) You have an opportunity to  upsell your book and make money on ads to sustain your future work; more importantly, you get to see traffic stats and see what is in demand, you get thank-you emails and feel valued.<p>Tomorrow: 1) you do research, write posts, publish a book, 2) it is all consumed by a for-profit operated LLM. 3) People ask LLM to get answers, and have no reason or even opportunity to buy your book or know you exist.<p>What exactly are the incentives to publish information openly in that world?<p>(Will they even believe you if you say you’re the one who did the niche research powering some  specific ChatGPT answer, in a world everyone knows that you can just ask an LLM?)