> Meanwhile, the AI model developers, who have taken in massive amounts of capital, need to find a business model that will repay all that investment. ... >

> Meanwhile, the AI model developers, who have taken in massive amounts of capital, need to find a business model that will repay all that investment. ... > The extreme case is these companies are no longer allowed to use copyrighted material in building these chatbots. And that means they have to start from scratch. They have to rebuild everything they’ve built. So this is something that not only imperils what they have today, it imperils what they want to build in the future. ... > "the only practical way for these tools to exist is if they can be trained on massive amounts of data without having to license that data." The simple and correct answer then is that they shouldn't exist. I don't care how much money they spent building a plagiarism machine, the expense and desire to build it doesn't excuse it being a plagiarism machine. Rich VCs don't get to ignore the rules just because they think they found a neat hack to make them billionaires. And after the shenanigans with the OpenAI board, the altruistic "for the betterment of humanity" argument has been revealed to be a thin sham.