I wouldn't want to come to their defense, but the argument reminds me a little of earlier fights about if search engines owe the sites they crawl anything. Whic

I wouldn't want to come to their defense, but the argument reminds me a little of earlier fights about if search engines owe the sites they crawl anything. Which led to things like Canada's Online News Act[1] which doesn't seem to me to have been very good for users in Canada (but I am not in Canada, maybe it has upsides?) From my perspective, before OpenAI used/stole these copyrighted works, the public had to pay the original creators to get access to them, and now they've been absorbed into ChatGPT and friends, we have to pay someone else... seems like a wash for end users? 1: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-canada-law-online-news-c-18-bill-news-links-rcna91882 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-canada-law-onl...