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YouTube, Substack, and others are tightening policies for monetized creators. Ad networks won't subsidize low-effort synthetic content. If you can't easily monetize algorithmic slop, the ROI on training data and compute collapses, making human-created content relatively more valuable. The enforcement gap between platforms will determine outcomes: permissive ones become dumping grounds for garbage, while stricter platforms may gain creator trust.