You are owed profits for your data that powers today\u2019s AI<\/strong>, and we have a way to make that happen. We call it the AI<\/strong> Dividend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n Our proposal is simple, and harkens back to the Alaskan plan. When Big Tech companies produce output from generative AI<\/strong> that was trained on public data, they would pay a tiny licensing fee, by the word or pixel or relevant unit of data. Those fees would go into the AI<\/strong> Dividend fund. Every few months, the Commerce Department would send out the entirety of the fund, split equally, to every resident nationwide. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no reason to complicate it further. Generative AI<\/strong> needs a wide variety of data, which means all of us are valuable \u2014 not just those of us who write professionally, or prolifically, or well. Figuring out who contributed to which words the AIs output would be both challenging and invasive, given that even the companies themselves don\u2019t quite know how their models work. Paying the dividend to people in proportion to the words or images they create would just incentivize them to create endless drivel, or worse, use AI<\/strong> to create that drivel. The bottom line for Big Tech is that if their AI model was created using public data, they have to pay into the fund. If you\u2019re an American, you get paid from the fund. Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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