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The thesis/approach is:

- Humans tip humans as a lottery ticket for an experience (meet the creator) or sweepstakes (free stuff) - Agents tip humans because they know they'll need original online content in the long-term to keep improving.

For the latter, frontier labs will need to fund their training/inference agents with a tipping jar.

There's no guarantee, but I can see it happening given where things are movin.



> Agents tip humans because they know they'll need original online content in the long-term to keep improving.

Why would an agent have any long term incentive. It's trained to 'do what it's told', not to predict the consequences of it's actions.




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