Wow, that’s a great way to immediately drain all of the potential out of what could be a really amazing technology, and absolutely prevent any open source competitor from ever coming into existince, so in the best case we’ll all be paying google and openAI monthly forever for access to knowledge that ought to be free.

I mean, if people cannot afford to pay for the rights to certain works, they shouldn’t use them as data. It’s actually very simple to say that you need to own the rights to the inputs in order to own the rights over the outputs and I don’t think it “stifles” anything. For example, if you don’t own the right of the original copy of Star Wars, you obviously wouldn’t own any rights over the output of an upscaled Star Wars. Same goes for writing or other “transformative” media and it has been this way for a long time (see: audio sampling)

This would keep AI companies honest. I have no problems with them recreating the voice of darth vader via AI since it was an ethically condoned business and the assets were properly licensed and sourced. Other AI projects haven’t been doing this and voice over artists have been (rightfully) calling them out.

Edit: Also, working in open source means having a proper understanding of licensing and ownership. Open source doesn’t mean “free this and free that” – in fact, many AI based code assistance tools are actually hurting the open source initiative by not properly respecting the license of the code base it’s studying from.