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Wishful thinking. Just as equally, NYT’s right to copyright over its material, in order to have a functional press, is enshrined the constitution. Anyone threatening that copyright could be unconstitutional.

I think we all agree that no one is entitled to “progress of science” at any cost - as a straw man, killing hundreds of newborn babies for scientific research is not great - so we use ethics and the legal system to find the line of what’s acceptable.

I don’t know exactly what NYT is asking for here, but the two options aren’t unconsented training vs nothing at all. NYT could license, for a fee, its content to OpenAI. It’s pretty common for scientists to have to pay for materials!



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