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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

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In “ How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology ,” The New York Times reported that One day in 2005, a mother in Evanston, Ill., To zoom out again, we live in a society where mainstream journalism has been carved out and gutted by the internet, search, and social media. joined Flickr.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

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In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.