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AI can copy your work in seconds — but eight things it can't touch

Kevin Kelly wrote "Better Than Free" in 2008. The AI era just proved him right all over again: once copying is free, what you can sell is whatever can't be copied.
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AI can copy everything you make in seconds. So what's left to sell?

Say you wrote a book, shot a photo, made a track, wrote some code, or gave someone advice. If anyone can copy it identically in seconds — or have AI spit out a pile of variations on the spot — how do you still make money off it?

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