Thinking about how OpenLedgers Payable AI Positioning connects to the Creator Economy wave of 2019 TO 2022 and the link REveals a specific risk that nobody in the OPEN community is discussing.
Was reading about the Creator Economy model When something clicked. Payable AI is structurally identical to the Creator Economy value proposition. creatorscontribute content. a platform ATTributes which content generated which value. creators get paid automatically. democratized compensation for creative contribution.
The link:
the Creator Economy platforms that launched Between 2019 and 2022 Substack Patreon OnlyFans Mirror Sound.xyz NALL made the same core promise. contribute content, earn automatically based on Engagement Attribution, take back power from platforms that extracted Value without compensating creators.
OpenLedgers Payable AI makes the same PRomise for data contributors.
Where it breaks down:
The Creator Economy Suceeded in moving money to Creators. but it concentrated success in a small number of top creators while the vast majority earned Marginal amounts. Substacks TOp 10 newsletters likely account for a disproportionate percentage of total revenue. Patreon's top creators account for asimilarly concentrated share.
This is the power law distribution problem the same one the AI Marketplace faces. Even with attributionbased automatic Payments the value concentrates at the top.
The additional layer for OpenLedger:
the Creator Economy at least had direct consumer audiences paying creators. data contributors in OpenLedger dont have direct consumeraudiences. They have models that use their data. The distance between contribution and compensation is longer and more opaque. a content creator on Substack can see how many subscribers they have. A Datanet contributor cant see which models are using their DATA or how often.
What that means:
Payable AI sounds like Creator Economy 2.0. the attribution mechanism is moresophisticated. but the creeator OR faccing transparency knowing your contribution is being used and VAlued is actually less direct than what even the original Creator Economy platforms provided.
The real question:
does OpenLedger solve the power law problem the Creator Economy neversolved or is Payable AI a CreatorEconomy rebranding with less creator Facing visibility than the platforms it implicitly replaces?