Substack grows as original voices put their best ideas behind paywalls

iamKierraD · x · 2026-08-04

The author says this is why Substack is rising: people with real points of view and original ideas are increasingly putting their work behind paywalls.

The reply they quote argues that frontier labs will keep fighting for labeled expert data, because if models were truly commoditized, companies would already be getting better ROI from deployments — and the demand for quality human expertise is about to surge.

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