If their business model requires either infringing copyright or paying billions of dollars for the rights, then perhaps it is a bad business model.
I’m glad midjourney and dall-e showed us what’s possible, but now we must take a step back, delete those models, and do it right. Single companies should not hold the power to steal whatever they want from humanity and then capitalize on it.
"We want to use your work so you can be replaced many in jobs, but it's expensive to actually license your work, so we aren't paying."
There, that's easy!
...loans or investment. It would be loans or investments. Like any other business.
You can't just steal cars either just to kickstart your taxi business...
Oh, no, what a tragedy.
Like, seriously, "our business model relies on stealing all the art in the world, therefore it is right and proper that we do that" is a bit of a Bond villain take, when you think about it.