If this all worked in a fair way it would be treated similarly to sampling in music where the original artists get a royalty each time a track is used. If that

If this all worked in a fair way it would be treated similarly to sampling in music where the original artists get a royalty each time a track is used. If that source is clear like where it's "x in the style of y" using these elements of x explicitly. However, the complexity is often too great and how can you prove fractional sampling of your work? Very tricky as the article points out! It's also blocking many new forms of art if you enforce the fractional sampling idea in law. On the other hand, small startups selling to customers who need to produce proprietary content could incur a risk with AI generated products. Aka the customer won't want to risk their product by including potentially infringing items (like with Co-Pilot's potential use of unpaid labour or open source code and other licences).