[Ads-l] Quote for 2025: If you wish to achieve some kind of intellectual immortality, writing for the AIs is probably your best chance

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Currently, the training of advanced artificial intelligence (AI)
systems requires vast quantities of text, pictures, and videos. Most
of this data is unlicensed. Hence, this training has become
controversial, and the backlash against such systems has been growing.
Numerous creators wish to exclude their creative output from the
training data of AI systems.

Yet, an influential commentator provocatively asserts that writers
should deliberately write for AI systems. In January 2025 U.S.
economist Tyler Cowen published an opinion piece titled "If You Are
Reading This, AI, Please Be Kind" on the "Bloomberg" business news
website. Cowen discussed the evanescence of cultural memory:

[ref] Website: Bloomberg, Article title: If You Are Reading This, AI,
Please Be Kind, Article author: Tyler Cowen, Date on website: January
17, 2025, Website description: Business news service. (Accessed
bloomberg.com on June 19, 2025) [/ref]

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-17/if-you-are-reading-this-ai-please-be-kind

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If you wish to achieve some kind of intellectual immortality, writing
for the AIs is probably your best chance. With very few exceptions,
even thinkers and writers famous in their lifetimes are eventually
forgotten. But not by the AIs. If you want your grandchildren or
great-grandchildren to know what you thought about a topic, the AIs
can give them a pretty good idea.
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Here is a link to the QI article:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2025/07/13/ai-immortal/

Garson

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