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   Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 18:16:43 JST Jonathan Corbet
   There are days when I feel like I want to find a different world to live in; this post from Kevin Kelly has brought that feeling to the fore. Consider: Some authors have it backwards. They believe that AI companies should pay them for training AIs on their books. But I predict in a very short while, authors will be paying AI companies to ensure that their books are included in the education and training of AIs.

   Or perhaps...

   If a book can be more easily parsed by an AI, its influence will be greater. Therefore many books will be written and formatted with an eye on their main audience. Writing for AIs will become a skill like any other, and something you can get better at. Authors could actively seek to optimize their work for AI ingestion, perhaps even collaborating with AI companies to ensure their content is properly understood, and integrated.

   Kevin has certainly consumed large amounts of Kool-Aid on this one. Personally, I plan to keep writing for humans, even if that is seemingly obsolete.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 18:18:28 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @corbet Well… the second one does reminds me a lot of working to please the way platform implemented recommendations and user feeds.