While the article makes sense, I think that it's not just OpenAI, but just the data in general.
For the past decade or so, data has become one of the most important trade goods, and holds an incredible amount of power. Facebook and many other big social media websites were profitable because users gave them their data for free, and they, in turn, sold it to advertisers.
Advertising was perhaps the easiest or most legal option to sell data. With the rise of LLMs, there's now a huge new market that they can capitalize on: Raw access to all the data and knowledge they have stored.
While the article makes sense, I think that it's not just OpenAI, but just the data in general.
For the past decade or so, data has become one of the most important trade goods, and holds an incredible amount of power. Facebook and many other big social media websites were profitable because users gave them their data for free, and they, in turn, sold it to advertisers.
Advertising was perhaps the easiest or most legal option to sell data. With the rise of LLMs, there's now a huge new market that they can capitalize on: Raw access to all the data and knowledge they have stored.