What does AI owe YOU?

You could easily live without Artificial Intelligence. But AI wouldn't exist without you. So does AI owe you for your small part in creating it? First, the facts. Large language models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT or Anthropic's Claude were built by ingesting the totality of human information online—everything from news stories by Axios to social media postings by you. Some content owners—mass producers and individual creators—are suing AI companies for using their content without permission. The litigation—by media companies, music producers, book publishers—is often brought under copyright laws. AI makers defend their use of protected content by invoking long-contested "fair use" principles. But what about you? If you ever posted a comment on Reddit, or tweeted, or shared pictures on Instagram, or posted a rant on Facebook, you're a tiny part of the LLMs' brains. It's doubtful you'll get a penny for your time or mind now. But some AI leaders, most notably Anthropic's Dario Amodei, argue you should benefit—in the future.