Something I've been wondering about it, what was different about the invention of the printing press, which also allowed potentially multiple copies of low-quality content, and LLMs? I'd love to read some historical context around what people did to combat low-quality copies in previous eras and how it worked or didn't work.
@matthew@vicki
Thanks for the ping, Matthew.
It so happens I'm writing a new preface to the Gutenberg Parenthesis right now looking at lessons for AI. And yes, Vicki, I deal with this in a few ways in my book: about efforts to control through licensing, then liability (the issue wasn't so much quality as heresy!) and then copyright (designed to aid booksellers/publishers much more than authors).
(Link to the book, with discount code, here: https://gutenbergparenthesis.com/ )
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