Incestuous Content
This is wonderful. I strongly encourage these types of deals, because they will speed up the collapse and degeneration of these models even quicker.
1. Journo has content and sells it as 'certified human generated' to LLM peddler
2. LLM scrapes content certified to be human generated and trains on it
3. Journo uses LLM to create future content (and possibly fires all but a handful of humans)
4. LLM scrapes content certified as human generated and degenerates one click
5. Journo solely uses LLM to create content because who needs these pesky humans, it now only generates LLM-sourced content
6. GOTO 4
Computers get real dumb, REALLY fast.
Result: both the useless journo AND the LLM snake oil peddler go out of business.