> The law is simple... You have to have a license to the data to train a model with that data. If you don't... Get ready to be sued.

This won't be the case everywhere. UK has actually already explicitly ruled the opposite

Becareful of regulatory capture tho. If the one with AI headstart can capture a huge swath of value, said value can be used to lobby and bribe legislators or the executives of the government.

There's no good way to put the AI genie back in the bottle, or make sure it will not create catastrophic undesired consequences. Only way is forward, even if there is no good path in sight.