So this was the outcome I guessed would need to happen, but I didn't think publishers would be the ones to push for it, but I guess they are. The thing is if t

So this was the outcome I guessed would need to happen, but I didn't think publishers would be the ones to push for it, but I guess they are. The thing is if this upsets you on some gut level, this is just a sign for how valuable information to train on is. May be billions is too much, but hundreds of millions? If your immediate thought is "this must be stopped, this isn't fair" it is a signal of how reliant AI at all is on the data it trains. An untrained nn is useless, it's only useful if it has information to train on. It's not like value creation is zero sum but it certainly doesn't come from zero, and the "something" it comes from is definitely more of the data you train on than the training method you choose.