> I was imaging if LLMs could finally solve the micropayments solution people have always proposed for the internet. Part of my monthly payment gets split between all of the sites that the LLM scraped knowledge. Paid out like Spotify pays out artists.
As a software user I wish I could do the same for all the software I use.
Many open source projects accept donations. There's also explicitly paid-for software. What exactly do you wish for that you can't do right now?
Specifically the part where engineers get paid the same way as artists on Spotify.
So a handful will make a buttload but the vast majority won't make enough to pay rent?
Certainly that's how open source pans out.
So not at all for their work and with a reverse Robin Hood model? That would be terrible for software. The way artists gets paid on streaming is a genius play at catering to the biggest artists and labels and screw over the smaller ones, especially true on Spotify with their freemium model