I have friends working on ways for content providers to charge AI training models. But I have a feeling that’s not enough.

The future will have to be where creators have an incentive to consistently create, and consumers pay for what they like, or services to keep them informed and entertained without them having to do much.

In between will sit middlemen and aggregators to enable a smooth flow. Who that will be and what they do in this next phase is the big question.

Under the current method, Google’s search and ads groups are competing against each other. Don’t see that going well for anyone.

8 / 10.

But it wasn’t fair. I actually met Guido at a PyCon conference.

I’ve had good luck with Jekyll, saving the source on github, and setting it up so pushing to main auto-deploys to a Cloudflare site. Using Markdown and for larger media, uploading to S3.

Much easier to set up and maintain than github pages. Since it’s static output, pretty snappy. Also includes RSS feeds and permanent URLs.

Have also set up several Wordpress sites. Slower, but if you want wysiwyg editing, user comments, or there are several contributors, would work better.

Have also heard good things about ghost, but haven’t actually deployed one yet.

Once these AI companies go belly-up, those people with critical thinking and research skills will be able to name their price.

Those abilities have been in high demand for millenia. Focus on the basics.

Love it. Lots of good ideas there. They really need to simplify their pitch, though. First thing would be to use a simpler logo. Just go and own 🔥

A couple years ago, I would have agreed. Most of our email is junk. But nowadays, you can have an LLM digest and summarize it for you. That could also be a service the legacy system offers. Grandkids can just ask for a free-form search term without having to wade through everything.

A long time ago, I had the idea for a startup to keep digital material, including accounts, passwords, old documents, etc. in a digital vault that would be released to the next-of-kin when someone dies. It would also convert documents to newer formats so your old unpublished WordPerfect novel could be opened and read by the grandkids (should they choose).

Problem is, nobody would (or should) trust a startup with that material. This is stuff that should be around for many decades and most startups go out of business.