If I put time and effort into a food recipe should I (get) compensation?
the answer is apparently "no", and I don't really how recipe books have suffered as a result of less gatekeeping.
"How will the internet work"? Probably better in some ways. There is plenty of valuable content on the internet given for free, it's being buried in low-value AI slop.
Outside of Wikipedia, I'm not sure what content you are thinking of.
Taking HN as a potential one of these places, it doesn't even qualify. HN is funded entirely to be a place for advertising ycombinator companies to a large crowd of developers. HN is literally a developer honey pot that they get exclusive ad rights to.
the answer is apparently "no", and I don't really how recipe books have suffered as a result of less gatekeeping.
"How will the internet work"? Probably better in some ways. There is plenty of valuable content on the internet given for free, it's being buried in low-value AI slop.