From an economic viewpoint AI companies are not worth is as it is now. OpenAI and Anthropic are hundreds of billions of dollars in debt and will never make a profit. Same goes for the AI subsidiaries of Microsoft, Meta, Google etc, except they are just leeching off of the mother companies and hiding their figures among their finances. Paying creators for their data would make very little difference in their overall finances.
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From an economic viewpoint AI companies are not worth is as it is now. They are hundreds of billions of dollars in debt and will never make a profit. Paying creators for their data would make very little difference in their overall finances.