Security News > 2023 > July > The AI Dividend

We're now in a different sort of resource rush, with companies peddling bits instead of oil: generative AI. Everyone is talking about these new AI technologies-like ChatGPT-and AI companies are touting their awesome power.

Generative AI needs a wide variety of data, which means all of us are valuable-not just those of us who write professionally, or prolifically, or well.

The bottom line for Big Tech is that if their AI model was created using public data, they have to pay into the fund.

The licensing fee could be small, starting at $0.001 per word generated by AI. A similar type of fee would be applied to other categories of generative AI outputs, such as images.

The idea of paying you for your data isn't new, and some companies have tried to do it themselves for users who opted in.

Generative AI is different: It uses data from all of us whether we like it or not, it's ubiquitous, and it's potentially immensely valuable.

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