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I mean, that would be kind of insane, but it could actually work: OpenAI needs "clean", high-quality data as input for its AI; rather than harvesting data to sell to advertisers, they could and finance major internet infrastructure -- the equivalents of StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook -- to harvest data to feed their models. That might actually make the world a better place.

Why would you pay $10B for data which you can scrape for $50 from a few seedboxes?

Or if that's too much work for you, just download one of them many archives that are already freely available online.

$10b is probably too low