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

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

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The Times intend to argue these models can be used to bypass their paywall. Something Google does not do.

    The Google preview feature bypasses paywalls. Google Books bypasses paywalls. Google was sued and won.

    • spaduf@slrpnk.net
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      11 months ago

      Most likely the times could win a case on the first point. Worth noting, Google also respects robots.txt so if the times wanted they could revoke access and I imagine that’d be considered something of an implicit agreement to it’s usage. OpenAI famously do not respect robots.txt.

      Google books previews are allowed primarily on the basis that you can thumb through a book at a physical store without buying it.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Google books previews are allowed primarily on the basis that you can thumb through a book at a physical store without buying it.

        If that’s the standard then any NYT article that has been printed is up for grabs because you can read a few pages of a newspaper without paying.