“Committee of Older Creators” actually doesn’t sound bad 🙂
Judging by your follow-up messages, it seems this touched a nerve a bit, or maybe you were trying to say something clever there (not sure it really worked). But you missed the main point of my take:
* There is Actor 1 priced at, let’s say, $10/result.
* Then another builder creates Actor 2 using reverse engineering and/or copying/stealing the input/output description, README, etc., often with the help of LLMs, and sets the price at $1/result.
Actor 2 then continues to exist without any issue. Is that really okay?
Of course, Apify may choose not to do anything about it. I don’t see their internal numbers, but to me, that looks like a losing long-term strategy.