Dev pushes back on 'internet data is running out' claim for pretraining
willcb · x · 2026-10-19
Against the popular claim that the internet's usable pretraining data is running out, developer willcb argues the opposite: the internet is not a static stockpile — exponentially more content is being created every day, so the premise of data exhaustion doesn't hold. A counterpoint to the widely discussed pretraining data bottleneck debate.
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