The thing is that for medium to large companies it’s probably less expensive to pay people a nominal fee for pictures than it would be to risk being sued by, say, Disney, Nintendo, WWE or Games Workshop (to use some famously litigious companies).
I hope that’s the direction we head that way artists are appropriately compensated for their work. We’ll see entire libraries/brokers pop up that grant LLM makers access to work for a fee.
That’s expensive and companies would rather not pay while the law is unclear on using copywrited images in a training set
The thing is that for medium to large companies it’s probably less expensive to pay people a nominal fee for pictures than it would be to risk being sued by, say, Disney, Nintendo, WWE or Games Workshop (to use some famously litigious companies).
I hope that’s the direction we head that way artists are appropriately compensated for their work. We’ll see entire libraries/brokers pop up that grant LLM makers access to work for a fee.