Here's the thing, it's probably not critical for creative works. You can train on open source code, sure. Reddit; sure, maybe. But creative works... It's muddy

Here's the thing, it's probably not critical for creative works. You can train on open source code, sure. Reddit; sure, maybe. But creative works... It's muddy. Just get a fucking license for copyrighted shit. It's really not even as difficult as people think; every publishing industry is so consolidated now that it would be entirely possible to work out some industry standard AI training license for publishers to opt into and pay some pittance to creators like Spotify does. Creators then have to opt in if they want a large publisher to publish their shit. You can still self publish and retain all your rights; but 99% of people won't do it because... Idk they're lazy. Look at the music industry. Other than like, insane clown posse NOFX and $uicideboy$, most bands just sign with a label and let them work out the copyright stuff. You then sign a deal with the label to train on the works where they own the publishing right. It's opt in for the creators, people can still make money from creating things. It's the same in the film business. If you want your movie in theatres you sign a deal with some publisher. There aren't really that many. Has literally nobody in tech considered how doable this is? Or tech people are just so used to being able to do anything they want that nobody looked into it?