This is an interesting analogy. Of course oil extraction and refining are very complex, but most of the value in that industry is simply the oil.
If you take the analogy further, while oil was necessary to jumpstart the petrochemical industry, biofuels and synthetic oil could potentially replace the natural stuff while keeping the rest of the value chain in tact (maybe not economical, but you get the idea). Is there a post-web source of data for LLMs once the well has been poisoned by bots? Maybe interactive chats?
If you take the analogy further, while oil was necessary to jumpstart the petrochemical industry, biofuels and synthetic oil could potentially replace the natural stuff while keeping the rest of the value chain in tact (maybe not economical, but you get the idea). Is there a post-web source of data for LLMs once the well has been poisoned by bots? Maybe interactive chats?