It seems obvious to me that there is no such thing as AI without publicly training on the open web, and that any kind of licensing is an impossible feat.
Programs from my youth (Daria, Captain N) had licensed music for their broadcast, and that’s all because what else was ever going to be done? 20 years later, streaming with the music intact is an impossibility because the kind of money necessary to license all of it was too much. And you have to make deals with dozens of companies.
Multiply that by several orders of magnitude and you start to see the scope of the problem.
Programs from my youth (Daria, Captain N) had licensed music for their broadcast, and that’s all because what else was ever going to be done? 20 years later, streaming with the music intact is an impossibility because the kind of money necessary to license all of it was too much. And you have to make deals with dozens of companies.
Multiply that by several orders of magnitude and you start to see the scope of the problem.