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People should be compensated for the entire _transitive_ wealth created by their work proportional to the amount of time spent and their skill.

If a translator's work is used to train a model which replaces him, he should get a part of the income every time the model is used.

Same for programmers, artists and other people who created "content"[0] used to train AI models.

In fact, the designers of chips used to train the models should get a part of the income. And the people who built the data centers and the factories. And the miners who mines the raw materials.

Actually, when you look at it this way, you realize the big names[1] behind these behemoth AI companies did very little. Their amount of work put in is the same as of any other worker, maybe double, if their bragging about 80-hour weeks is to be believed. And their skill level? It's a bell curve. Even if they are 2 SD to the right, how much more productive are they than the average person (with the same amount of education and connections) put in their position. I am OK with the owner of such a company getting paid maybe 3-5x more than the average worker.

[0]: https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/#:~:text...

[1]: Who "make" more money every day than most people make in their lifetime.