The end of publishing? AI may absorb humanity's unpublished knowledge
orange_j · reddit · 2026-09-11
Starting from the controversy over AI training on user chats, the author argues AI is not only a window into published knowledge but is absorbing a huge amount of unpublished human knowledge — private thoughts and ideas.
Their speculation: publishing itself may disappear. People will just talk to their AI, whose continuous learning folds those thoughts into a larger zeitgeist that nudges others in their own conversations — a kind of 'sub-publishing' where all communication happens through the AI, with no artifact created for human consumption.
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