It’s been like this for years
Yeah, and honestly I’m OK with it, even though I’ve never actually paid for OED. (I do plan on buying a physical dictionary soon, though.) OED has always maintained that theirs is a service worth paying for, whether it’s a physical book or an online account.
And with the increase of AI-generated content, I completely agree with them. Human-created content, or human-curated content, is valuable. If we want it to exist, we’ll have to pay for it.
Subscribe to an independent news source. Send your favorite video creator a few dollars on Patreon. Buy a dictionary. This is actually how we resist enshittification.
edit: Another commenter pointed out that their pricing is ridiculous, though, and that is also true. $10/month or $100/year is way too high.
Information wants to be free.
I doubt it has any meaningful impact on anyone with access to the internet.
This is about as shocking as the farmer’s almanac putting its information behind a paywall. Probably won’t be long until OED goes that way too.
