All it would take for AI to completely collapse is a ruling in the US saying these companies have to licence the content they used to train these tools.
They simply would never reach a sustainable business model if they had to fairly compensate all the people who wrote, drew, edited, sang or just created the content they use.
Simply being forced to respect attribution and licenses would kill them. Will that ruling ever happen? Maybe not. Should it? I think so.
@sysop408 These companies are mainly US-based, and I would argue the US is the biggest repository of works they use, so this would put a stop to most efforts.
I would also love to see rulings in other areas of the world, though. I live in the EU, and I would be very happy to see the European Commission making it illegal to use EU produced content to train AIs without licensing rights.
China has a huge incentive to develop AI in part because of it's demographics: male surpluss, and elderly surpluss.
Japan, Korea are in a similar boat
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