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What the Reddit–Google Deal Suggests Creative Work Is Worth to AI
Google reportedly pays Reddit $60 million a year for its data. A top-down, data-economics method puts the contribution of creative work at 7 to 24% of the AI revenue it enables — at a conservative 10%, about $7 billion a year across OpenAI and Anthropic alone.
Creative Work — the $7 Billion Missing Line Item
This year's AI IPOs will raise hundreds of billions for compute, while the creative work the models are built from appears nowhere on the books. What creators are paid, what they should be paid, and the rails that don't yet exist.
Creative Value Monitor — Positioning Paper
AI models are built from creative work, from books and journalism to music, images, code, and the open web, yet there is no agreed way to say which work contributed to AI, how much, or what it is worth.