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.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
    82·
    11 months ago

    If this is ruled as not fair use then the whole industry will basically disappear overnight

    Nah, most of these companies have more than enough of their own users to mine data from.

    • spaduf@slrpnk.net
      72·
      11 months ago

      This is a fair point with regards to a handful of companies (Microsoft, Google, Meta) but there will still be an immediate loss in quality as they go back to basics on their data pipelines. Given how long they’ve spent playing catch up in this space, I suspect progress will be pretty slow from there

    • StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world
      51·
      11 months ago

      If this is ruled as not fair use then the whole industry will basically disappear overnight

      This is cute naiveté. This case will drag on for years and eventually be settled behind closed doors.