Subject: Re: Bernie Sanders on Ai and why
So what happens to all that money collected for AIs operating, harvesting the fruit of all previous human intellectual effort? It is divided between all the humans!

Indeed, the writer receives compensation when the students purchase the book to learn the information it provides.
Unlike when AI consumes information.

Easy to do this with smart contracts on a blockchain. Just like BMI/ASCAP does it now with radio. Who created what, and who uses what (including access and citation by AI), is tracked by tokens, and smart contracts just allocate the revenue automatically, according to agreed-upon formulae. As a practical matter, revenues are converted to digital currency, which is deposited ratione et ordine into everyone's digital accounts automatically, no humans required, and a public audit is available anytime. In the not-too-distant future, this is how everything will be done, so in a sense, this is just the 21st-century digital version of the "creators versus publishers" battle that has been going on for millennia. Jesters didn't always get paid, and there wasn't much they could do about it.

DIS, NFLX and WBD could already use tokens to share content-generated revenue with creators if they wanted. They already know who uses their content and for what, and they use that as the basis for what they charge. Almost all traditional publishers do this. To do it on-chain, they would have to adopt new systems and code all of their content. Massive undertaking, no one can agree on how to do it, and no one other than the creators really cares if they do it or not. Eventually, they will have to. But it will take some time, and publishers will delay as long as they can. It will also be much easier to do this going forward than backward, which is why the fight is about future rights, not past rights.

Not to worry: AI is going to figure it all out for us. Onward!

abromber