We don't know what the courts will rule, what laws will pass. But we know what the incentives of Disney, the RIAA, have on the copyrighted *inputs* side.
And what about those running the models? What about them?
They might have a harder case, people bring up the monkey with a camera case, but this is a risk also. OpenAI's CFO explicitly said in an interview that it would like to pull a Unity, and suddenly upend the situation customers have come to expect and get a licensing cut of every piece of profit assisted by them. https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-cfo-sarah-friar-future-revenue-sources-2026-1
The problem with all this is that the legal area is *uncertain*. And it's even more uncertain because it will be ages before there is *international consensus* on how to handle these things.
And will they pass that money on to all of the people whose work was stolen to create the training data?
