> Our proposal is simple, and harkens back to the Alaskan plan. When Big Tech companies produce output from generative AI that was trained on public data, they would pay a tiny licensing fee, by the word or pixel or relevant unit of data. Those fees would go into the AI Dividend fund. Every few months, the Commerce Department would send out the entirety of the fund, split equally, to every resident nationwide. That’s it.

Let's call it something catchy like "Universal Basic Income." And collecting money when companies do stuff? Brilliant. I wonder if it could even be applied more generally... perhaps by taking a percentage of every companies profits? I should write this down...

In all seriousness, I do love UBI, but this seems like a weird way to go about it. Also, AI contributions are worldwide, how's that gonna work?