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This gamified payment model is not my cup of tea.

The whole vibe of this site seems like it’s more interested in growing user count and making money rather than helping people.

I also feel like “crowdsourced” is a euphemism for “stolen content.”

Sure, it’s a capitalist world and I’m not against starting a business, but this feels like something supremely lazy, like the author is hoping to make money without any of the effort of starting a real business. Just be a middleman to other people’s work.

Idk, good luck competing with AI chatbots.



Maybe the real business model is to sell the data to the LLM trainers.

Unless said LLM trainers figure out some way of downloading all the data without paying...




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