> Additionally, if you ask for permission people have to imagine how things will be and for something innovative that’s hard. OpenAI could have used this ignor

> Additionally, if you ask for permission people have to imagine how things will be and for something innovative that’s hard. OpenAI could have used this ignorance to their advantage! (Prior to ChatGPT release) They could have went to NYT pre-2023, said "Hey, can we pay you $100k to come to your offices and run some machine learning algorithm on your content library? We can even do it in an air gapped clean room because we don't need to take copies of your content home with us" -- they very well may have said "Sure, what's the harm in that, come in next week"