Why Now Is the Best Time to Start Your Own Website
Licensing Data Every few months, I see a headline that one of the foundation model labs is negotiating a multimillion-dollar contract to license data. This usually sparks a second-order debate: how much should the actual creators of that content be paid for their work? If Google is training Gemini on YouTube videos, should YouTube creators get a cut? If OpenAI licenses Reddit, should Reddit posters be compensated for their comments? Tips in LLMs.txt & Robots.txt The lines blur when you’re dealing with third-party platforms, but things get much simpler if you host your own content on your own domain. Standards are already emerging: ...