[Home](https://substack.com/) Subscriptions Chat Activity [Explore](https://substack.com/explore) Profile Create ### Make money doing the work you believe in Start your SubstackLearn more For you [Aaron Parnas](https://substack.com/@aaronparnas)[4d](https://substack.com/@aaronparnas/note/c-279686435 "Jun 20, 2026, 11:15 AM") I can’t believe tomorrow is my first Father’s Day! 6.8K 530 178 [Alyssa Vingan](https://substack.com/@alyssavingan) [42m](https://substack.com/@alyssavingan/note/c-281918475 "Jun 24, 2026, 10:15 AM") The Tom Ford Gucci dress (FW 1999) does not cancel out the Meta glasses, but nice try! 12 1 1 [V Spehar](https://substack.com/@vspehar) [13h](https://substack.com/@vspehar/note/c-281666214 "Jun 23, 2026, 9:55 PM") Cait Conley, the candidate the TPUSA teenage tradwives tried to drag for “looking like Dylan Mulvaney” (like thats a bad thing) - has won her Primary and will hopefully unseat Trump loyalist Rep Mike Lawler in November. Cait is a **Decorated Combat Veteran and National Security Expert,** she is the **first women in Special Ops leadership**, and… See more 92 1 9 #### You made it, you own it You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in. Start your SubstackLearn more [James Kaplan](https://substack.com/@jmk37) 3d [Playback speed\\ \\ 1×\\ \\ Subtitles\\ \\ Share post\\ \\ Share post at current time\\ \\ 0:00\\ \\ /](https://prosaictimes.substack.com/p/not-2007-anymore-what-vcs-have-to) [Prosaic Times](https://prosaictimes.substack.com/) Not 2007 anymore — what VCs have to say about AI and enterprise tech 2 [The Conscious Lee](https://substack.com/@theconsciouslee) [13h](https://substack.com/@theconsciouslee/note/c-281657955 "Jun 23, 2026, 9:33 PM") Israel is a decolonial what?? 48 1 13 #### Great discussions Join the most interesting and insightful discussions. Start your SubstackLearn more [Plum Sykes](https://substack.com/@plumsykes) [3h](https://substack.com/@plumsykes/note/c-281847184 "Jun 24, 2026, 8:01 AM") I’ve been Balenciaga-ed in Cannes. Love the bolero bag with the pink tailed heavy silk crepe tee. [go.shopmy.us/p-66850934](https://go.shopmy.us/p-66850934) 22 1 1 [Luiza Jarovsky, PhD](https://substack.com/@luizajarovsky) [2d](https://substack.com/@luizajarovsky/note/c-280683007 "Jun 22, 2026, 10:20 AM") [Luiza's Newsletter](https://www.luizasnewsletter.com/) Subscribe Suraj has a point. 2.9K 112 342 2,967 Likes ∙ 112 Replies ∙ [342 Restacks](https://substack.com/note/c-280683007/restacks) Jun 22 at 10:20 AM [Seemster](https://substack.com/profile/419640356-seemster) [2d](https://substack.com/profile/419640356-seemster/note/c-280957947 "Jun 22, 2026, 5:39 PM") Hold up. This is a wild misread of the AI situation. All of that is currently still available. And nobody is making you use or pay for AI models. The fact that people do pay for AI models is evidence that clearly there is some value they are providing for people. If you don’t want to use AI, you don’t have to. You can still Google stuff. Which is also another service that does not need to be given out for free. 29 11 [Aleksander Killman](https://substack.com/profile/87779497-aleksander-killman)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/87779497-aleksander-killman/note/c-281149634 "Jun 23, 2026, 2:53 AM") “You don’t have to use AI” is an illusion. The same way “you don’t have to use a smartphone” but somehow your banking, your local bus company and your parking payment system requires you to download an app. I believe what we see here is a growing chain of dependency that is less connected to physical reality and public structures we created in the course of history. It is solely dependent on profit-chasing companies we have no control of who can pull the plug any time they want. Sure, the blogs a… See more 58 3 [Tom Hewitt](https://substack.com/profile/5999906-tom-hewitt)[2m](https://substack.com/profile/5999906-tom-hewitt/note/c-281942751 "Jun 24, 2026, 10:56 AM") We may have built the library, but we cannot retrieve or interpret the books so quickly. [Ian Smith CText FTI](https://substack.com/profile/519830033-ian-smith-ctext-fti)[13m](https://substack.com/profile/519830033-ian-smith-ctext-fti/note/c-281935996 "Jun 24, 2026, 10:45 AM") That post perfectly sums up social media today. Platforms take your ideas, images, and content, then turn around and tell you there’s a cost to using it, while also selling ad space on your timeline to others, often showing you content you didn’t ask for. With increasing discussions and even restrictions around teenagers using social media, this might be the right moment to rethink how and with whom we choose to engage as partners on these platforms. [Dan Munro](https://substack.com/profile/14044808-dan-munro) [1d](https://substack.com/profile/14044808-dan-munro/note/c-281102247 "Jun 22, 2026, 11:44 PM") … IMO … not forceful enough. 29 4 2 [Anisha](https://substack.com/profile/64222032-anisha)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/64222032-anisha/note/c-281211464 "Jun 23, 2026, 6:44 AM") It’s funny but i would agree with Sam Altman IF (and there is a big IF) governments were also rolling out policies to make sure the profits from those AIs went to the individuals losing their jobs due to its existence and not the Sam Altmans of the world, as then they would truly be liberating humanity from menial labor. 3 1 [Dale Taylor](https://substack.com/profile/360954-dale-taylor)[2d](https://substack.com/profile/360954-dale-taylor/note/c-280863100 "Jun 22, 2026, 2:39 PM") We can’t forget the google SEO created slop-fest destruction of the internet long before AI. Google took away the 100-results on a page, and left you with 20 pages of human crapification with stolen content. Twitter was full of human-stolen content as well. The enshitification happened long before AI. 6 [boniaditya](https://substack.com/profile/5550901-boniaditya)[2h](https://substack.com/profile/5550901-boniaditya/note/c-281869329 "Jun 24, 2026, 8:47 AM") He missed the point - We built the Taj Mahal, and the Emperor claims it and then kills all the architects because they are not needed anymore, or how the Great Wall of China was built by workers who were then killed and put into the concrete and sealed into the wall They just made themselves obsolete through self sabotage, they automated themselves out of a job - [Analogies Project](https://businessanalogies.substack.com/) #Business Analogy 095 - Descartes Demon - Maya - Cogito Ergo Sum - Matrix & Upendra - Self Refutation - Virtuous Father - Instinct - Quick Temper - Stolen Concept Fallacy - Self Defeat/Sabotage 1 [Coop](https://substack.com/profile/108702903-coop) [9m](https://substack.com/profile/108702903-coop/note/c-281938472 "Jun 24, 2026, 10:49 AM") This is how business works. Apple didn’t invent the cell phone but they revolutionized it. Netflix didn’t invent movie rentals but they revolutionized it. Take what works and make it better. Most people aren’t going to invent anything or provide new information. [Teresa Dillon](https://substack.com/profile/115527368-teresa-dillon)[17h](https://substack.com/profile/115527368-teresa-dillon/note/c-281566044 "Jun 23, 2026, 5:56 PM") I was thinking this very thing recently. Do the same Google search you’ve done for years and you get the same information you would expect only it’s all pulled together into one pretty paragraph instead of multiple answers. Nothing new. Just what we already had made pretty. And for this we have people becoming billionaires from it. 2 1 [Chris](https://substack.com/profile/369734500-chris)[2h](https://substack.com/profile/369734500-chris/note/c-281883451 "Jun 24, 2026, 9:13 AM") If only it was just made prettier. From my experience it's now riddled with falsehoods and ads and search results have become less precise. Sure a lot of that also has to do with the fact that we are drowning the internet in low quality content. [Dr. J. Andrew Kuypers](https://substack.com/profile/464487965-dr-j-andrew-kuypers)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/464487965-dr-j-andrew-kuypers/note/c-281310536 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:14 AM") I respect the frustration in this post. However, all of that original content still exists on the internet. The ability to create new tutorials, projects, and answers remains fully intact. AI has only made this knowledge available in a different form. The people who built it and continue to build it have not been replaced. They can still create. 3 2 [Chris](https://substack.com/profile/369734500-chris)[2h](https://substack.com/profile/369734500-chris/note/c-281881380 "Jun 24, 2026, 9:10 AM") Accessibility is coming down already through enshittification of search engines and free knowledge is being fought tooth and nail by the big tech companies now: see google's plans for Android (f-droid) and Musk’s agenda against Wikipedia. There will come a time when all that stuff will be taken from us, if we do not fight for it. Mark my words. [Observations](https://substack.com/profile/510567329-observations) [1h](https://substack.com/profile/510567329-observations/note/c-281903768 "Jun 24, 2026, 9:51 AM") The entirety of the US economy is a subscription now. It’s a rare sight to see a factory actually making tangible products. 1 [Johnathan Vance](https://substack.com/profile/514423906-johnathan-vance)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/514423906-johnathan-vance/note/c-281098825 "Jun 22, 2026, 11:33 PM") It’s worse than that. Not only is it being completely drained from the human experience, but we’re being told it’s novel. Then, to access that information in the productized version, which is only slightly better than Google for anyone with a brain, we must use exponentially more resources and poison more biology to do it. All so people who lack creativity can call themselves authors or artists. All so people who don’t want to do homework for their chosen programs can pass, even knowing all inf… See more 4 1 [Shawn](https://substack.com/profile/100043581-shawn)[16h](https://substack.com/profile/100043581-shawn/note/c-281597998 "Jun 23, 2026, 7:06 PM") 💯 [J. Cecilia Kjellstrand](https://substack.com/profile/75384699-j-cecilia-kjellstrand)[14h](https://substack.com/profile/75384699-j-cecilia-kjellstrand/note/c-281641014 "Jun 23, 2026, 8:50 PM") That’s the whole capitalist end game. We’re valuable as consumers. I **think software companies are soon going to claim that anything you do on their software is their property & they have all rights to it. That’s kind of what they do when your software is no longer supported or if you no longer subscribe to them.** **I hate this time.** 1 [Manisha](https://substack.com/profile/410101803-manisha) [1d](https://substack.com/profile/410101803-manisha/note/c-281335855 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:57 AM") Yes valid point! Another issue is all of this learning was free before and many devs shared their learning via sites like Stack Overflow. This was a dev thing and we did it with pride. AI is causing many not to share and stack overflow reported the least additions in the last year. Scary that our sources are not getting populated with new learnings. 3 [Am up to Stuff...](https://substack.com/profile/41750074-am-up-to-stuff)[2d](https://substack.com/profile/41750074-am-up-to-stuff/note/c-280724077 "Jun 22, 2026, 10:36 AM") But these AI internet companies didn't just turn all of this content etc into products…they STOLE the content and monitizes it for their Directors and CEOs… 10 [Gokul Das](https://substack.com/profile/427611060-gokul-das)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/427611060-gokul-das/note/c-281332410 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:51 AM") Oh Lord! How can so many people be so tone deaf? Is this post that hard to understand? Is the concept of **economic parasitism** so hard to comprehend? Or do we have an AI astroturf bot army problem on Substack? 4 1 [Noido Dev](https://substack.com/profile/144853398-noido-dev)[17h](https://substack.com/profile/144853398-noido-dev/note/c-281565860 "Jun 23, 2026, 5:55 PM") Not enough commie trash and other ”concerned” bureaucrats and academics. They're all on Bluesky. 1 [Acorn Sweetleaf](https://substack.com/profile/465815840-acorn-sweetleaf) [1d](https://substack.com/profile/465815840-acorn-sweetleaf/note/c-281253024 "Jun 23, 2026, 8:27 AM") So stupid that the thing being quoted here disparaging AI was clearly written with AI. IYKYK 4 [Liya Marie](https://substack.com/profile/131834215-liya-marie) [1d](https://substack.com/profile/131834215-liya-marie/note/c-281358838 "Jun 23, 2026, 11:35 AM") Same thing with putting academic journal articles behind paywalls…. 1 1 [Chris](https://substack.com/profile/369734500-chris)[2h](https://substack.com/profile/369734500-chris/note/c-281884777 "Jun 24, 2026, 9:16 AM") Indeed: the authors get jack shit for their efforts. It's a completely exploitative industry. [Nathan Organ](https://substack.com/profile/173524678-nathan-organ)[13h](https://substack.com/profile/173524678-nathan-organ/note/c-281676103 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:22 PM") Except this all falls apart when you realise that most models have a free option 1 1 [Joe Ryder](https://substack.com/profile/318522193-joe-ryder)[12h](https://substack.com/profile/318522193-joe-ryder/note/c-281680648 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:35 PM") Nothing is free. Everything comes at a cost. 1 1 [Jose Paul Monter](https://substack.com/profile/391559827-jose-paul-monter)[12h](https://substack.com/profile/391559827-jose-paul-monter/note/c-281692680 "Jun 23, 2026, 11:10 PM") Everything becomes obsolete, we humans aren't any different. I think we already worked enough, it's time to forget all that and play again [K. Larkin 💌](https://substack.com/profile/464510998-k-larkin) [16h](https://substack.com/profile/464510998-k-larkin/note/c-281603126 "Jun 23, 2026, 7:17 PM") Yeah that's a good point :-/ [Kilgore Trout](https://substack.com/profile/14011096-kilgore-trout)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/14011096-kilgore-trout/note/c-281098154 "Jun 22, 2026, 11:31 PM") No, the original library is still there and free. AI is more like if there was a desk at the library with a librarian who had read all the books there and charged a fee for answering your questions without you having to go dig through the stacks. 4 2 [Mikell](https://substack.com/profile/480567351-mikell) [1d](https://substack.com/profile/480567351-mikell/note/c-281334543 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:54 AM") Except that it’s not a human being. It’s a computer program designed by corporations intent on turning massive profits and gaining social and political control 3 [halonaoko.](https://substack.com/profile/377265657-halonaoko)[21h](https://substack.com/profile/377265657-halonaoko/note/c-281435087 "Jun 23, 2026, 1:46 PM") post clearly written with llm;))) 1 [JCRodrig](https://substack.com/profile/321982873-jcrodrig)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/321982873-jcrodrig/note/c-281278159 "Jun 23, 2026, 9:17 AM") Time to fuck up that library bros, you know how! 1 [Noel Keith](https://substack.com/profile/262380128-noel-keith)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/262380128-noel-keith/note/c-281207936 "Jun 23, 2026, 6:33 AM") Real content must compete with giant digital shelves copiously stacked with reams and reams of AI slop. It doesn’t matter where you publish or post it. 4 1 [Ann Spragens](https://substack.com/profile/107701160-ann-spragens)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/107701160-ann-spragens/note/c-281300641 "Jun 23, 2026, 9:57 AM") AI took more than what was free open source. Its creators have stolen everything that is digital, without permission and without compensation. It is the greatest thievery ever witnessed by mankind. 1 [Teddy Harnatkiewicz](https://substack.com/profile/359988368-teddy-harnatkiewicz)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/359988368-teddy-harnatkiewicz/note/c-281238341 "Jun 23, 2026, 7:55 AM") They haven’t really started charging admissions so much as they’ve started a program where, instead of going into the library yourself, you can ask Doug™️ to go in for you, sprint between shelves at lightning speed reading whatever you requested, and then come back and regurgitate the parts he remembers (and make up the parts he doesn’t) 1 [F. P. Dawe](https://substack.com/profile/465452048-f-p-dawe)[21h](https://substack.com/profile/465452048-f-p-dawe/note/c-281435317 "Jun 23, 2026, 1:46 PM") To be clear AI is only worth billions because we live in a brain dead society. OpenAI is valued, supposedly, at close to 1 Trillion dollars. Yet their released financials show they took a loss of 38 Billion this year. They're 96 Billion in debt (and growing, even though most of this debt is on paper situated on the hyperscalers, but they own the infrastructure) with a seperate 180 Billion in “investment” ie. Money people expect “returns” on from this deeply unprofitable company. I struggle to se… See more 1 [Emmett Rensin](https://substack.com/profile/1442463-emmett-rensin) [20h](https://substack.com/profile/1442463-emmett-rensin/note/c-281484315 "Jun 23, 2026, 3:18 PM") But every sentence of the tweet except the first was obviously written by an LLM. [s a vicinanza](https://substack.com/profile/116986151-s-a-vicinanza) [1d](https://substack.com/profile/116986151-s-a-vicinanza/note/c-281323539 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:36 AM") Absolutely correct - the person who invented the desktop on your computer Stephen “Woz” Wozniak said at a recent commencement. You don't need AI you are AI. We all are. In fact AI at this time burns through billions every month with little or no return. Most early AI companies are either shut down or defunct, useless. And not an insult they just don't work. The huge mega centers or hyperscaled data centers are being built to somehow expand AI enough to make it work. Society is rejecting it as e… See more [Cant\_Frame\_Me](https://substack.com/profile/88888482-cant_frame_me)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/88888482-cant_frame_me/note/c-281352614 "Jun 23, 2026, 11:25 AM") A story as old as the buggy whip manufacturers [RevelinConcentration](https://substack.com/profile/307069189-revelinconcentration) [19h](https://substack.com/profile/307069189-revelinconcentration/note/c-281505698 "Jun 23, 2026, 3:59 PM") I wonder if all the folks complaining about AI have actually started using it? [RevelinConcentration](https://substack.com/profile/307069189-revelinconcentration) [19h](https://substack.com/profile/307069189-revelinconcentration/note/c-281504903 "Jun 23, 2026, 3:57 PM") Just another brick in the wall. I’m sure the Chinese peasants who built the Great Wall felt the sss as me way. [Customshopgura](https://substack.com/profile/422935397-customshopgura)[12h](https://substack.com/profile/422935397-customshopgura/note/c-281689062 "Jun 23, 2026, 11:00 PM") Yup,i fully agree. [Arun Sharma](https://substack.com/profile/431934559-arun-sharma)[12h](https://substack.com/profile/431934559-arun-sharma/note/c-281679579 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:32 PM") Yes advancement. Auto generation of such tutorials. But still offline mode is popular due to human interactions. But this will also be gone soon. [Engincan Veske](https://substack.com/profile/86937968-engincan-veske)[3h](https://substack.com/profile/86937968-engincan-veske/note/c-281854327 "Jun 24, 2026, 8:17 AM") The asymmetry is the part that’s hard to argue away. The model got smarter because of the work, and the work didn’t get compensated because it predated the product. Whatever your view on AI, that sequencing matters. [Dan Modica](https://substack.com/profile/254863697-dan-modica)[13h](https://substack.com/profile/254863697-dan-modica/note/c-281672141 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:11 PM") Yes. Things is fucked up. [Maarten Brand🔥](https://substack.com/profile/8693966-maarten-brand)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/8693966-maarten-brand/note/c-281353255 "Jun 23, 2026, 11:26 AM") Its true. It’s theft on an utterly massive and incomprehensible scale. If you steal small, you go to jail. You steal BIG, you are the future of tech. [Jaimin](https://substack.com/profile/850227-jaimin)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/850227-jaimin/note/c-281331300 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:49 AM") but version of it is available for free, and it probably works for most of the people. let say if you need to be compensated, how would it work? what type of distribution would work? (btw it was always the case where you were getting some comp from youtube and google blog posts based on share of advertisement.) looking for constructive dialogue . 1 1 [fieryhellreaper](https://substack.com/profile/475760899-fieryhellreaper)[16h](https://substack.com/profile/475760899-fieryhellreaper/note/c-281603951 "Jun 23, 2026, 7:19 PM") Only base models or past versions of Ai are available for free. Most useful ones are locked behind a pay wall. They also used everyone on the planet to train the Ai just to replace them. Amazon is replacing workers with robots. They have self driving delivery vehicles over seas. They even have an Ai actress to pimp out for films cheaper than more actors. They are polluting drinking water. Raising prices for people's utilities. In the mean time the company making billions off the Ai is getting b… See more 1 [Wilding](https://substack.com/profile/443652480-wilding)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/443652480-wilding/note/c-281294599 "Jun 23, 2026, 9:46 AM") Ai is the British Museum of humanity. One day human husks will listen in wonder, for a fee, at tales of the conscious human. [Gary Wade](https://substack.com/profile/521431035-gary-wade)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/521431035-gary-wade/note/c-281421028 "Jun 23, 2026, 1:22 PM") Interesting point you make [USIBARIS](https://substack.com/profile/73768090-usibaris) [1d](https://substack.com/profile/73768090-usibaris/note/c-281199387 "Jun 23, 2026, 6:04 AM") we are talking intellectual theft here the owners will, if they don't already exist, create huge paywalls and mount massive legal challenges against the AI gurus watch this space! [Austin Taylor](https://substack.com/profile/254498463-austin-taylor) [1d](https://substack.com/profile/254498463-austin-taylor/note/c-281170111 "Jun 23, 2026, 4:13 AM") Who knew AI’s final form was going to be academic publishing? [Joe Ryder](https://substack.com/profile/318522193-joe-ryder)[12h](https://substack.com/profile/318522193-joe-ryder/note/c-281679551 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:31 PM") This was always the plan. Always. [Hey](https://substack.com/profile/484869349-hey)[4h](https://substack.com/profile/484869349-hey/note/c-281812872 "Jun 24, 2026, 6:32 AM") This is how it’s always been. Thry justify it to the next people they want to use. Those people believe the folks that have been thrown overboard just couldn’t cut it, or are lazy, not realizing it’s a pattern and they’ll be impacted next [Chet Williams](https://substack.com/profile/79749424-chet-williams)[5h](https://substack.com/profile/79749424-chet-williams/note/c-281799581 "Jun 24, 2026, 5:50 AM") This but it White prople having built all of modern civilization and then paying people named Suraj to come stink up the place. [Gyaan Goli, the knowledge pill](https://substack.com/profile/181212162-gyaan-goli-the-knowledge-pill)[16h](https://substack.com/profile/181212162-gyaan-goli-the-knowledge-pill/note/c-281604138 "Jun 23, 2026, 7:20 PM") Knowledge is built on knowledge. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. [Dorrego Cabrera](https://substack.com/profile/15794358-dorrego-cabrera)[20h](https://substack.com/profile/15794358-dorrego-cabrera/note/c-281482859 "Jun 23, 2026, 3:15 PM") Publicly-available data is a public good/resource. It’s analogous to oil; there’s already an existing model: Alaska Permanent Fund (“Oil”) Dividend. We tax the compute, which provides an easy metric to measure and scales up/down. Wikipedia: [en.wikipedia.org\\ \\ Alaska Permanent Fund - Wikipedia\\ \\ [Prophetsoverprofits](https://substack.com/profile/109769154-prophetsoverprofits)[2d](https://substack.com/profile/109769154-prophetsoverprofits/note/c-281080807 "Jun 22, 2026, 10:37 PM") It's nothing different to what has been going on, merely a small subset. Look around, all production, regardless of industry, is social, yet we are told that the fruits of that production, the surplus generated, should be private. [Rolled Oats](https://substack.com/profile/439663895-rolled-oats)[2d](https://substack.com/profile/439663895-rolled-oats/note/c-280989213 "Jun 22, 2026, 6:46 PM") When something is free, you are the product. 3 [U Daniel](https://substack.com/profile/120225684-u-daniel)[20h](https://substack.com/profile/120225684-u-daniel/note/c-281483870 "Jun 23, 2026, 3:17 PM") It's sad to see, we where always the product [Truth-seeker-9998](https://substack.com/profile/521348568-truth-seeker-9998)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/521348568-truth-seeker-9998/note/c-281268852 "Jun 23, 2026, 8:59 AM") Spyfree should be the default. We need PersonalIP because of stuff like this. [Tristan Cassel](https://substack.com/profile/479120905-tristan-cassel)[2d](https://substack.com/profile/479120905-tristan-cassel/note/c-280936951 "Jun 22, 2026, 4:58 PM") I work in contracts/licensing and there’s very much a case to be made for a historic class-action. I think that some of the AI talking heads are trying to get out in front of this by bringing up ideas like population-wide profit sharing, etc. [Katie James Smith](https://substack.com/profile/194898800-katie-james-smith)[2d](https://substack.com/profile/194898800-katie-james-smith/note/c-281074663 "Jun 22, 2026, 10:19 PM") It is why we are building [humma.ai](http://humma.ai/), from an application and a policy perspective. [Joe Mills](https://substack.com/profile/247462876-joe-mills)[21h](https://substack.com/profile/247462876-joe-mills/note/c-281453976 "Jun 23, 2026, 2:20 PM") Wait a few years. AI is stupidly expensive and unprofitable. In its current form it is doomed to die within a few years, maybe sooner. Rip AI bros. [Tim Stewart](https://substack.com/profile/308546408-tim-stewart)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/308546408-tim-stewart/note/c-281164214 "Jun 23, 2026, 3:50 AM") AI uses us and feeds off of our input. It’s not here to help us. [Ian W](https://substack.com/profile/5261708-ian-w) [18h](https://substack.com/profile/5261708-ian-w/note/c-281550924 "Jun 23, 2026, 5:26 PM") That’s literally how colonizers work what did you expect? [Ashe Wilde](https://substack.com/profile/448968121-ashe-wilde)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/448968121-ashe-wilde/note/c-281334067 "Jun 23, 2026, 10:54 AM") Is there a way to block AI from taking info from certain sources? For example, if you post free tutorials, is there code to block AI from the website? I feel like this is worth building. [David O.](https://substack.com/profile/2608720-david-o)[2d](https://substack.com/profile/2608720-david-o/note/c-280927054 "Jun 22, 2026, 4:40 PM") AI doesn't make sense as a for-profit project. OpenAI will eventually be owned by the US government [Immanuel](https://substack.com/profile/21661978-immanuel)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/21661978-immanuel/note/c-281373149 "Jun 23, 2026, 11:59 AM") Open source LLMs are the way. [Eliana Emery](https://substack.com/profile/500928340-eliana-emery)[2d](https://substack.com/profile/500928340-eliana-emery/note/c-281077631 "Jun 22, 2026, 10:28 PM") Free is rarely really free in the internet economy, which is part of the problem. AI (like many new technologies, including Google search back in the day) threw the economic status quo out of whack. It needs realignment, which is something all publishers should participate in doing. [Gaslight Phoenix](https://substack.com/profile/339645645-gaslight-phoenix)[2d](https://substack.com/profile/339645645-gaslight-phoenix/note/c-281067209 "Jun 22, 2026, 9:59 PM") That's WHY those companies incentivized this knowledge creation for the last 20 years. Its the oldest trick in the Capitalist Book, fatten the calves, bring them to slaughter. The crazy people who thought intellectual property rights were going to protect them, have just realized that they were left in the dust, like horse buggy whip makers, as their skills were commotized into making Model Ts. IP is mostly an international money racket. And it harms everyone except for a few. It's an imperialism of the mind. [Ramiro Blanco](https://substack.com/profile/199313321-ramiro-blanco)[1d](https://substack.com/profile/199313321-ramiro-blanco/note/c-281190121 "Jun 23, 2026, 5:30 AM") It’s called capitalism. It’s been happening for about 300 years. [Del Potter](https://substack.com/profile/112800371-del-potter)[14h](https://substack.com/profile/112800371-del-potter/note/c-281644484 "Jun 23, 2026, 8:59 PM") [Against Enclosure](https://againstenclosure.substack.com/) They Work for the Bots [Gordon Tremeshko](https://substack.com/profile/28630948-gordon-tremeshko) [1d](https://substack.com/profile/28630948-gordon-tremeshko/note/c-281373226 "Jun 23, 2026, 11:59 AM") Counterpoint: a lot of AI is also free. 1 reply hidden ### Related notes [Stephen Colbert](https://substack.com/@stephencolbert)[May 25](https://substack.com/@stephencolbert/note/c-264842913 "May 25, 2026, 8:55 AM") This substack is free and will always remain free. 18.3K 306 632 [Bette A. 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