I read a good take on this.
Ethically, it's probably a good thing to compensate the rights holders.
But it also means the only companies that can afford this licensing are going to be the existing incumbents, e.g. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft.
And that society is probably worse if these companies gate keep society's access to good AI and the vasty majority of the productivity gains AI brings.
Content creators are already compensated for their work (thru ads, donations, etc) and ChatGPT wont affect that.
The Copyright Law is already so convoluted, I'm curious how they are gonna apply it on AI Models in the coming decades.
For established libraries (photos/books...) controlled by corporations, it would be possible to licence in bulk for inclusion in models. But I don’t see how you can get royalties per generated item (like streaming)
How about Public Funds? Too “socialist” ? well brace yourself for revolution : The OSS trained on everything under the sun are coming (soon.) What are you gonna do about it?
How would such a model work?
Let's take your recipe example? I don't think grandma got compensated for her original chicken soup recipe that someone posted online and then got tweaked to 100 versions of which 30,000 people upvoted or liked the various versions.
And then the AI comes along and outputs a new version of the recipe that's not identical to any of the previous versions because you told it to substitute pepper with some kind of other substitute.
Who should get compensated what?