In the music industry, even the tiniest sound sample used in a work entitles the original creator to compensation. It might come to pass that using any portion of an author's work in your training data will confer certain rights to the author over the AI generated product. You'll have to perpetually keep records of your training data for commercially available work, lest you be sued. A whole bureaucracy will evolve, a Getty Curated Training Data, public domain training data sets. Basically the same sorts of issues that we've had over the past 30 years, except replacing "internet" with "AI."
And if the past is any guide, the forces of capital will prevail commercially, but after aborted attempts to rein them in with lawsuits, hobbyists and kids on social media will be mostly ignored by rights holders.
> One day a robot is going to be walking around the world. Will it have to pay someone every time it glimpses a video / book / logo / car design / etc?
> Your stored mind contains sections from 124,564 copyrighted works. In order to continue remembering
these copyrighted works, a licensing fee of $18,000 per month is required.
> Would you like to continue remembering these works?
> [you have insufficient funds to pay this licencing fee]
And if the past is any guide, the forces of capital will prevail commercially, but after aborted attempts to rein them in with lawsuits, hobbyists and kids on social media will be mostly ignored by rights holders.