AJ Sadauskas<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@skribe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>skribe</span></a></span> Conversely, the cost of printing, distribution, and storage puts up a barrier to spamming people on other continents with mass quantities of low value slop. </p><p>Just think through the logistics of a hostile Eurasian state sending a mass quantity of printed materials to Australia or North America.</p><p>Or, for that matter, a hostile North American state sending a mass quantity of printed materials to Europe or Asia.</p><p>You would either need:–</p><p>a) At least one printing press on each continent;<br>b) You could try shipping the magazines, but they'd be a month out of date when they arrive; or<br>c) You could try flying them overseas, but that would be very expensive very quickly.</p><p>That's before you worry about things like delivery drivers (or postage), and warehouses.</p><p>These are less of an issue for books than they are for newspapers or magazines.</p><p>And if a particular newspaper or magazine is known to be reliable, written by humans, researched offline, and the articles are not available online, then there's potentially value in people buying a physical copy.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LargeLanguageModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LargeLanguageModel</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LargeLanguageModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LargeLanguageModels</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spam</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gemini</span></a></p>