[vidarh]

In agreement with your "slightly inconvenienced": The world's dozen or so largest publishers have market caps averaging below $10bn range each.

"Even" just OpenAI alone could pocket a few of them if they need easy sources of acquiring content.

This includes the largest educational publishers. And while these publishers do not own all their content, the reality is most authors earn so little, that a "allow AI training on my work for $x extra" would give them vast amounts of content.

As for Getty, Getty has a market cap of "only" $2bn. The big players will easily afford to build or buy libraries like that.

But of course it will be the end of decent open models.