How thinkers and writers must compete with LLM's
May 24, 2025
Longreads + Open Thread newsletter: 2025-May-24 by Byrne Hobart
The Patel interview is too long for my patience, but I love Byrne's comment! I added the emphasis.
Nilay Patel interviews Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott. This interview mostly focuses on the economics of AI, specifically the question of how anyone will make money online if AI agents are circumventing ad-supported models, and are trained on tokens they haven't paid for. He seems confident that we'll work something out, which will still have implications for the online content business: it means that being able to write at the same skill as an LLM is basically worthless, but being able to produce things that they can't, and that will influence their behavior, is very, very worthwhile.