Data Wants to Be Free

Data wants to be free. I always wanted to look into the news agencies, which fought an uphill battle to monetize it.

LLMs make reverse engineering of proprietary data super easy. So what stays valuable? Brand. Super proprietary data that will never be on the internet and cannot be reverse engineered. And time series data.

I'm thinking a bit like real estate or stock investments. Say you build scrapers that save time series data which otherwise only the App Store or the Chrome Web Store has in their database. Nobody can extract that history and nobody can reverse engineer it. Then this might be a worthwhile investment, because time is working for you.