Sounds good, except it's assuming a lot.

* Assuming AI companies will pay for content instead of just stealing it

* Assuming they'll pay enough to sustain a business, even though they're incentivized and positioned to pay as little as possible

* Assuming AI companies will give a shit about trustworthy content, as the moat (at least right now) for developing an LLM is too huge for them to seriously worry about competitors. And even if they did, it'd likely result in consolidation rather than innovation

* Assuming the AI companies (or anyone) would even be able to distinguish credible human content from AI generated slop

I don't see this working out. Props to cloud flare marketing though. This advertisement generated a good amount of discussion.