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So does this set a precedent that OpenAI knows it should be paying the millions of rights holders who didn't grant it a license and yet saw it use their IP to g

So does this set a precedent that OpenAI knows it should be paying the millions of rights holders who didn't grant it a license and yet saw it use their IP to generate billions of dollars of revenue?

madeofpalk 2y ago
This is not the first publisher OpenAI has paid for rights to its content. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-13/openai-axel-springer-ink-deal-to-use-news-content-in-chatgpt https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-13/openai-ax...
jcranmer 2y ago
One of the factors in fair use analysis is whether or not there exists a market for licensing for the use in question, and this is conventionally given the strongest weight in fair use analysis. So yes, making agreements to license content does illustrate that there exists a market for using text in AI training, and it will do a lot of damage to arguments that it's all fair use.