Investors sue Adobe execs over AI copyright statements

[AZJonnie]

3. I would settle for them being forced to burn the models trained on stolen materials down

With significant penalties for past sins attached paid to rights holders, and with a strictly enforced licensing scheme in place going forward. Make them pay for the use of the training materials. There's plenty of huge companies with huge catalogs (publishing houses) who I'm sure would happily sell training rights to the AI companies (hell, they're just being ripped off now, better to make some dough instead). There's not really anything about how it all works that firmly necessitates work being "stolen". They stole it cause they didn't want to pay if they didn't have to. Make it so they HAVE TO. If that puts them out of business, so be it.

Three problems with that though is that only the really big players will able to afford to pay those fees, and the fact that unless it's done and enforced worldwide, these companies will just move, and countries like China probably won't make the same efforts to honor the system, which will put them in a commanding position in the marketplace.