Charge a student $800 in tutition and fees to attend a class. Student writes 3 good papers in the class. License the three papers to 10 AI models for $45 for a total of $450. College increases student revenue by >50%. This setup is clearly unfair and feels predatory. Anyone that has been in a graduate lab that was working on a project actually worth money has seen this side of college before.

However, this new marketplace introduces an interesting line of questioning. Can undergraudates/graduate students generate enough novel training data to cover their tuition? Will the 21st century scholar most valuable output be high quality material for LLMs to digest.

I'd love to see a metric for determining how valuable a document is to an LLM. How accurate is the data, how much new knowledge does it add, how relevant is it to users of the LLM. If we can value a document accurately we can create a marketplace for individuals to license their creative output.