AI models generate immense value from user data. It’s time to demand onchain attribution and pay the people whose data makes AI possible with Payable AI, to ensure fair recognition and payment for everyone.
Opinion by: Ram Kumar, core contributor at OpenLedger
The public has knowingly contributed to the rise of artificial intelligence, often without realizing it. As AI models are projected to generate trillions of dollars in value, it’s time to start treating data like labor and building onchain attribution systems to pay the ones making it possible.
X posts by users helped train ChatGPT, and their blog posts and forum replies shaped models that are now monetized by some of the most powerful companies in the world.
