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  - New candidate drug molecules identified by pharmaceutical companies through AI;
  - New alloy formulas discovered by material laboratories;
  - Optimized circuit architectures developed by chip design teams;
  - Even new products incubated by startups based on AI-generated ideas.
This will tank adoption in high tech fields that live and die by IP.
No, for every established company that may be hesitant, there's up and comer with nothing to lose who will jump on the opportunity, and the industry will continue moving forward.

This is not a capability that will go unused.

If only someone could come up with a way to make a significant profit with LLMs by doing something useful with them, OpenAI would be saved!

Instead, it's advertising and speculation.

Are there credible sources for these claims?
We have the same insight into the sources as we do OpenAI’s finances.
This sounds like the "idea guy" claiming you owe him money after you do all the work.
This is like book publishers asking to take a slice of your income due to presenting you with the information you studied to become proficient. Except the book publishers actually helped to create the information that helped you and didn't steal it.
People are way misinterpreting OpenAI’s intentions here. The idea is that OpenAI could propose to enter into joint ventures with industry partners where each side gets a share of the rewards generated by the joint activity. This is would only happen in the cases where it’s an attractive proposition to both sides.
Cant wait for the lawsuits on this one. Hoo boy
And just like that, the bubble burst.
Does this mean I get to take a cut for assisting their training data?
> Does this mean I get to take a cut for assisting their training data?

No. You see, the money is supposed to go to Altman.

How will they enforce this? The content coming out of the LLM cannot have copyright.
Matt Levine (Dec 2025), https://archive.is/S3MPq

> Your business model might end up being sort of a … startup incubator or private equity firm; you’d spend your time starting or acquiring companies on which the robot could work its magic. Your business model would be “general business, but with AI”.. Either it will sell AI at high margins to lots of businesses, or it will sell AI at lower margins to lucrative businesses that it owns.

Oh boy, I imagine a number of companies would drop Open AI usage altogether if the terms change to say OpenAI now gets a cut of the profit from anything created from using AI. This is crazy and wouldn't need to be possible if they already had a profitable business model. Imagine other companies like Microsoft or Apple charging companies a 'technology empowerment fee' because you used Windows or Mac computers to create something.