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

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    I get it. Can seem alarming, and I won’t argue here about training on copyrighted works.

    a few companies are able to slurp up the entire history of human creative thought, crunch some statistics about it with the help of severely underpaid Kenyans, and put a paywall around it, and that’s totally legal.

    If a few companies can slurp up our entire public domain history and profitably paywall useful products of it, have there still been moral failings?