[CobrastanJorji]

It's a reasonable idea. Certainly it makes sense that AI companies need training data and people should have a way to sell that data to them. That said, given that the government seems to be moving in a "copyright does not apply to AI" direction, I would not want to putting my eggs in an "AI companies will pay for data" basket.

[lurk2]

Private repositories of data will still be valuable due to AI content making public content not suitable for training purposes; but if copyright doesn’t apply the real issue is identifying the content, not paying for it; paying for it might be worse as you’re creating an incentive to upload junk data.

[Avipat_]

They are actively paying for it now, and regulation is moving in that direction as well. Regardless, someone's camera roll data, for example, isn't publicly available, meaning it can be sold, unlike someone's Instagram photos.