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Models need vast amounts of data. Paying individual users isnt feasible, and like you said most of it can be scraped.
The only way I see this working is if scraped content is a no go and then you pay the website, publishing house, record company, etc which kills any open source solution and doesn't really help any of the users or creators that much. It also paves the way for certain companies owning a lot of our economy as we move towards an AI driven society.
It's definitely a hot mess but the way I see it, the more restrictive we are with it, the more gross monopolies we create for no real gains.
I don’t see why those are the only two options.
We could update GPL, CC, etc. licensing so that it specifies whether the author intends to allow their work to be used for LLM training. And you could still put a non-commercial or share-alike constraint on it.
Hooray, open source is saved while greedy grubby hands are thwarted.
What happens when every corporation and website closes their doors to AI? There isn't any open source if we can't use scrapped information from stack overflow, GitHub, Reddit etc.
Sure some users will opt out but most won't. Every single website will restrict though and then they will sell it to google and Microsoft who will be the only companies able to build ais.
If I could predict what happens to the tech market when XYZ policy is enacted, I wouldn't be posting on Lemmy during my tea breaks. Whatever policies end up sticking around, success is gonna require a lot of us having ideas, trying them out, and recombining them.
But I'll claim this about my personal metric of "success": If the future of open source looks like copying the extractive data-mining model of big tech and hoping we can shove the entire history of human thought into a blender faster than them, I think we've failed.
There is no open source future if all we have is the blender and nothing else