Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It always should have had the right business model where they paid for this access for AI training. They knew it was wrong but in their rush to be known they decided it was better to take without asking and then ask for forgiveness later. Regardless what happens now, people have already made a name for themselves swindling the likes of Microsoft out of it and will have long well-paying careers from it.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It seems like it was almost necessary to go through this phase for the sake of developing the tech. Doesn't a lot of CS research uses web crawling algorithms to gather data without identifying that the information is licensed for such use? What about the fediverse? it remains unclear what the copyright and licensing will be should it come into question. There is no EULA to access fedi, just a set of open protocols.

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