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Models that are trained on public information should belong to the public.

I've been tinkering with how we can use this as a form of leverage to ensure AI models remain accessible by the public and to ensure we all benefit from it. Here is what I came up with so far.

tldr: We forgo all copyright claims on public data used to train models, if that model is either publicly released after training, or taxed heavily until it is. We also tax hosting of publicly trained models in order to establish a UBI.

The offer:

Approved AI companies can train on any and all publicly accessible material.
Public data includes any data that can be legally consumed by a member of the public who doesn't have a direct relationship to the publisher or original owner of the data. This includes free materials, sponsored materials or paid-for materials when an offer to purchase is held out to the public at large. This does not include individual or organizational data only available to employees or family members.
Any country or state that opts into this deal needs to pass a law that states that no copyright or trademark claims can be made against entities in any country, when said data is explicitly used to train an AI model.
Access to any public data needs to be readily but securely granted to independently approved AI training entities. A nominal access fee not to exceed $10/TB can be charged.

The price:

In return for the copyright forfeit, AI training companies can choose to either:

Publicly release any such model trained on public data as open weights immediately after training.

-or-

Retain and host the model as private for a period of 18 months, but pay a tax of 20% of all revenue generated by the model during that period. After 18 months the model weights must be publicly released regardless. Exemption to release (but not tax) for models that were never held out for purchase by the general public, such as models trained exclusively for national defense.

Hosting:

Datacenters that host any model that was trained on public data, whether such model is open or closed weights, will be taxed 30% on all revenue from that model, or, if hosted privately, 30% of the prevailing rate in the area. This hosting tax is in addition to the closed weights model tax.
The AI cannot disseminate more than 1% of the data verbatim as a means to redistribute the training data and media unmodified.

Distribution:

All tax revenue will be divided worldwide proportional by GDP to all countries who opted into this deal.
For a country to be compliant with this deal and receive the money, this money has to be distributed as a UBI to all residents of the receiving country.

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