Technology

You make a good point.

But maybe they asked their AI model and it misplaced a decimal. /s

Ignoring the fact that training an AI is insanely transformative and definitely fair use, people would not get any kind of pay. The data is owned by websites and corporations.

If AI training was to be highly restricted, Microsoft and google would just pay each other for the data and pay the few websites they don't own (stack, GitHub, Reddit, Shutterstock, etc), a bit of money would go to publishing houses and record companies, not enough for the actual artist to get anything over a few dollars.

And they would happily do it, since they would be the only players in the game and could easily overcharge for a product that is eventually going to replace 30% of our workforce.

Your emotional short sighted response kills all open source and literally gives our economy to Google and Microsoft. They become the sole owners of AI tech. Don't be stupid, please. They want you to be mad, it literally only helps them.

And payment sharing will most likely be a percentage of revenue and right now their biggest hurdle is just scaling, and it's incredibly rare that a startup with huge demand completely fails because of scaling challenges. Once they scale their profit margin will be huge, they'd be able to do payouts and still profit. But don't get excited about payouts, it'll probably amount to pennies like it does on Spotify.

AI is too useful and too powerful that none of the major players in world politics are going to put serious restrictions on it, do you really think they're going to risk Chinese and Russian ai giving them the economic and scientific edge?

Yes selfish people want to stop progress which could help everyone in the world hey access to education, medical care, legal advice, social care, etc because they think they're owed twenty cents for the text they wrote but thankfully society isn't going to take them seriously, there are money grubbers and antisocial people everywhere who are looking for any chance to ruin things that could help others and we ignore those people.