[card_zero]

> Should every training run put money into a pool that gets paid out to every rights holder of every book that has ever been published?

That could actually work. Bearing in mind that all copyright laws are messy and terrible, this proposal is at least not impossible.

"Ever been published" means in the last 100 years.

[ricardobeat]

Ok, 130 million books against $100M training costs. You charge an (unrealistic) 100% tax for the book usage. Each author will get less than a dollar. What is the point other than enriching publishing companies?

[alanfranz]

You mean, what is the point beyond paying those companies that made such books possible and available for their work? No other point, actually.