Comment by drivebyhooting

Let’s play out what the successful story looks like, for example in music generation:

* thousands of composers and musicians “contribute” their works for free to OpenAI and their ilk.

* models are trained and can produce movie scores, personalized sound tracks, etc

* the market for composers dwindles to a small sliver. Few if any choose to pursue it.

* OpenAI et al have a de facto monopoly on music creation.

* Soon the art of composition is lost. There are a few who can make a living as composers by selling their persona rather than their music. They actually just use OpenAI to write it for them.

Is that the future we want? Inevitable.