I'm excited for the moment where these models are able to treat using copyrighted work in a fair-use way that pays out to authors the way Spotify does when you listen to a song. Why? Because authors recieving royalties for their works when they get used in some prompt would likely encourage them to become far more accepting towards LLMs.

Also passing on the cost to consumers of generated content since companies now would need to pay royalties on the back-end should also likely increase the cost of generating slop and hopefully push back against that trend.

This shouldn't just be books, but all written content, like scholarly journals and essays, news articles and blogs, etc.

I realize this is just wishful thinking, but there's got to be some nugget of aspirational desire to pay it forward.