A man sells short stories for $4 in SF — 'the training data market has gotten out of control'
lfschiavo · x · 2026-10-20
- The author recounts meeting a man in San Francisco's Tenderloin selling hand-printed, stapled short stories for $4 each.
- The punchline: "the market for novel training data has gotten out of control" — a joke riffing on AI labs' pricey scramble for high-quality text data.
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