I think there's plenty of room for a finer-grained permission framework and clear demand for one. I give it about a year, maybe 1.5 for all the interested parti

I think there's plenty of room for a finer-grained permission framework and clear demand for one. I give it about a year, maybe 1.5 for all the interested parties and advocates to align behind a standard and make it happen via big-company enforcement and the occasional copyrught lawsuit (or, more commonly, enforcement via TOS). Once that happens, of course, the "black market" data aggregators won't care, but they're small and their product can't be used by legitimate channels so it can't compete in the mainstream market of ideas. What capital will do to screw over artists though is... Pay them. Once a framework for AI seed rights-granting is in place, a hundred or a thousand legit artists can produce enough AI seed-feed to legally supplant the work of hundreds of thousands. There will still be room for the artist-as-celebrity with a unique style that makes their art worth owning as much for the fact that it came from them as for the content of the canvas or the sculpture, but a huge, guaranteed-work, bread-and-butter space for the visual artist, advertising and entertainment media asset creation, will dry up as companies backfill their art needs with functionally-free-to-them mass-generated close-enough assets (advertising in particular is going to be full of this... Remember when "head first" photos of people were a thing for awhile? Look forward to trends like that, over and over again, forever).