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The fight over the data that trains artificial intelligence has become one of the defining economic conflicts of the decade. Publishers, authors, and visual artists argue<\/a> that their work was taken without permission or payment. AI companies counter that training on available data constitutes fair use<\/a> and that even if a market in data were desirable, compensating millions of creators is technically impossible<\/a>: the cost of figuring out what any given piece of data is worth, researchers have argued<\/a>, would swallow most of the value that data creates in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n