New theory of effect of LLM use on language at maturity: It will be like passive investing through index funds on the stock market. Foundation models are like big S&P trackers. Writing your own raw text is like shilling penny stocks. Releasing a major original work will be like an IPO.

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

Hmmmm what's private equity and where is the alpha in that framing? Procuring and digitizing unique datasets and bags of words for mining perhaps