The Scholarly Kitchen: AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … At Least Not How You’re Hoping It Will (Guest Post)

We’re pleased to share that a new guest post by Jonathan Woahn, Co-founder of Cashmere, has been published in The Scholarly Kitchen, one of the leading industry publications covering scholarly and professional publishing.

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We’re pleased to share that a new guest post by Jonathan Woahn, Co-founder of Cashmere, has been published in The Scholarly Kitchen, one of the leading industry publications covering scholarly and professional publishing.

The article explores a growing assumption in the market that AI companies will become large, recurring buyers of content and explains why that expectation does not align with how AI systems actually create and capture value.

In Part One of a two-part series, the piece focuses on the distinction between training and inference, and why that difference matters economically for publishers thinking about AI licensing and long-term sustainability.

Read the full guest post on The Scholarly Kitchen.

Stay tuned for Part 2!

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