Quoting Kevin Kelly, Paying AIs to Read My Books, The Technium, 2025

The value of an author’s work will not just be in how well it sells among humans, but how deep it has been included within the foundational knowledge of these intelligent memory-based systems. That potency will be what is boasted about. That will be an author’s legacy.
— Kevin Kelly, Paying AIs to Read My Books, The Technium, 2025

8:08pm on October 24, 2025 from Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia


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