Fwiw - this post doesn't advocate for trust. It advocates for an enforcement mechanism (attribution-based control).

Yes, but then you still have to trust the counterparty enough to bother investing in anything like this. And so far, the main counterparties are demonstrating that they are not very trustworthy when it comes to paying for training data.

Maybe that will change over time. But to hear OpenAI and Anthropic tell it, paying for training data will be the death knell of the industry[1].

1 - there are a number of statements to this effect on the record, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-...