If anyone has a few million$$ hanging around, you could make a brief splash by starting "Bandcamp for Generative AI"
Set up a service that lets artists form collectives that can train a model together and also includes a marketplace that allows users to prompt these models in exchange for a fee that goes to the artists who trained it.
Ideally, the actual GPUs that your GANs are running on are being powered by solar or wind only.
Provide several disbursement models for the "collectives" like "artists are compensated according to their contribution of training material" or "artists are compensated even-split across the collective" etc.
Save the training data, or hash it, so that you can use it to investigate claims from other artists if they recognize their influence in the output of a model, to discourage theft.
When you build this platform, it will be bad and people will not like it. You probably won't make money because of the cost of IP enforcement, conflict mediation, green energy infrastructure for the service core, etc.
But that's what you will have to do to make the use of generative AI feel acceptable in my mind.
@North yeah that's kinda the ultimate problem with this tech. the audience who are super hyped about generative ML are only really hyped about it because it removes the cost of making the art in the first place by appropriating the underlying labour without compensation. make them pay a reasonable and proportionate fee for infrastructure costs and artist reimbursement and suddenly it's tumbleweed.
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