Patrick Collison: papers are trivially easy for AI models to read but walled off for humans
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-17
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison pointed out a sharp irony: academia is rightly wary of AI's impact on disciplines, yet consuming its publications is trivially easy for models (the world's knowledge sits neatly in their pretraining corpora) and cumbersome for humans, with CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls ensuring only the unusually dedicated reader ever makes contact.
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