Why Do We Charge Each Other For Building Humanity’s Knowledge?

Wassily Kandinski, Composition VII, 1913. Oil on canvas, 119 x 79 inches. Tretyakov Gallery. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

AI generated imagery, video and text have matured enough to be very viable alternatives to humans manually producing them. And while the world is raging about both quality and plagiarism on any number of use cases, some others have filed suit for neither being told nor paid when their work was being used to train these AIs. Where did these artists and creators get their influences…