It just means there will be a Google Books-style settlement where a few major tech companies write big checks to a few major publishers (whose work wasn't even

It just means there will be a Google Books-style settlement where a few major tech companies write big checks to a few major publishers (whose work wasn't even verifiably used in training the models.) The AI models will exist and be ubiquitous on the Internet, you'll just have to pay a small tax to some company in order to use them in commercial work.