Aggregate data is the way. We’ve seen that with Google and now OpenAI it’s all about talking to what we (in my team) call an “Aggregated Entity”. What an individual listens to on Spotify has indeed little to no value to the artist but its critical when its coellesed into a larger data set that marketing folks use for trends or targeting campaigns.

I disagree with the distinction between user owned and public data being negligible, this difference is critical if we want to create a world where individuals own their data and are incentivised for creating it. For example, what people are posting about on twitter SHOULD be incentive and verifiably cited.

Aggregated entity via AI interfaces is da way