# AI Investors Horrified at the Suggestion That They Pay Artists for Using Their Copyrighted Work

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/ai-investors-horrified-at-the-suggestion-that-they-pay-artists-for-using-their-copyrighted-work/
- Published: 2023-11-14T09:15:47-06:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image credit: Donald Iain Smith / Getty Images. Article by Frank Landymore. Futurism: The Byte – November 10, 2023. Pay Up  Having courted billions of dollars in investment and becoming an unstoppable juggernaut of hype, the generative AI industry should be sitting pretty. But it’s deathly paranoid about one thing: actually having to compensate artists for training AI models using their copyrighted work. […] Click here to view original web page at futurism.com