Copyright rulings would accelerate licensing shifts, not slow AI training
iamtrask · x · 2026-09-20
Andrew Trask and Herbie Bradley debate what copyright rulings would actually do to AI training:
- Bradley: realistic rulings wouldn't meaningfully slow training, just ramp up data spend; web-scraped pretraining is tapped out and new data is already licensed
- Trask: short-term, securing millions of licenses is a massive logistics challenge; long-term, data sources will only sell if granted more agency over the models they train — KYC, dynamic royalties, attribution
- Reality evolves from the former to the latter; rulings would only accelerate it
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