They're playing a dangerous game. While they are currently one source of many they could easily be excluded from the training data and it won't make a dent in t

They're playing a dangerous game. While they are currently one source of many they could easily be excluded from the training data and it won't make a dent in the capability of the model. Attempting to get payment for use of their data is a very short term viewpoint since the vast majority of written training data is likely to be synthetic going forward. They should be angling for citations and referrals back to their content so that they keep the current benefits they get from search engines after a large chunk of search gets replaced by LLMs.