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Wordle involved actually selling the rights to something not just allowing AI to be trained on it while he kept the website.

That’s really not a reasonable comparison to what is being sought.

As to global artists, I was suggesting the majority of artists globally make ~20k USD or less per year as artists. To get to millions of artists you need to use a generous definition, so now Hollywood is full of actors how many of them made 20+k last year as an actor? If you disagree fine let’s double it and 6 months salary is still only 20k and would I suspect be a seriously tempting offer when you retain all rights to past and future works.