Important sources are forbidden

For years, people building powerful artificial intelligence systems have used enormous troves of text, images, and videos pulled from the Internet to train their models. Now, that data is drying up.

Privacy uncertainties 

Meta will withhold future multimodal AI models from customers in the European Union due to regulatory uncertainties.

There is some government backing

A group of researchers, academics, and hackers are advocating for the ability to break AI companies' terms of service to conduct "good faith research" without fear of legal repercussions.