They’re already bleeding money like it’s going out of style. Licensing fees on top of that? Pssshhhh. Once the government forces them to do that, they’ll all topple over one by one like little white techbro bowling pins.

Assuming governments do.

Great. Let's do it.

Good, let’s eat them

Doesn’t even need to be government; if a big enough corpo have had their IP fed into one of these AIs, you can bet your ass they’ll set their lawyers on the case. And that sets precedent for other big corps and smaller creators to do likewise. And class action suits… it’ll get expensive, fast.