> What would be the public good or public trade-off here? Consider the aesthetic landscape where creators do not have control over whether their work is used t

> What would be the public good or public trade-off here? Consider the aesthetic landscape where creators do not have control over whether their work is used to train an AI versus one where they do. It's hard to predict with certainty, but my model is this: No control: Anyone's work is fair game to be trained. If I want to make a prompt of "A graphic novel in the visual style of Moebius, written by Stephen King, set in Westeros" I can get something based on King and Martin's actual words and Moebius' actual drawings, without compensating them. Neat! However, potential new novelists see that quality novels can just be churned out for free or low cost and so, actually sitting down to write a new novel becomes a niche, geek thing to do. There's no money in it. These new novels just get thrown into the ml bin, fodder for the next version. With control: novelists and other creators know they can make money from their work because they can make business decisions about how and when their work trains a model. We all get to see more new, professional quality creativity. Those who want to read Conan as written by Lord Dunsany can still see that, since those works are in the public domain.