I tend to think licenses will be required to train models made available to the public. The tech companies have deep pockets and lawyers, but so do the big medi

I tend to think licenses will be required to train models made available to the public. The tech companies have deep pockets and lawyers, but so do the big media companies. And the big media companies have a more effective propaganda arm. My precedent would be Google Books, where a lawsuit similar to the ones we are seeing now shut down Google's plans. Although it would be hilarious to think what would happen if the news industry went to war for instance, feeding false information to the AI scrapers making them look ridiculous. I think it also ties into not wanting AI to be trained on AI generated content. The winners will want to license original sources, and licenses work both ways so you can sue if paid for clean data and got dirty.