This tendency at Hacker News are also much more of a threat to The New York Times than what Open AI is doing. Even the places like blogs/Reddit/social media submissions that summarize the article and post the relevant quotes. Unlike the summary of a movie, summarizing all of the relevant parts of a news article is extracting almost all the value from it, and giving it away for free.
And the vast majority of people read news for it's breaking content, not for its archived content from years before (and I say this as someone who has often recommended the latter, but has gotten very few people to do so). So giving people that free breaking content (either in its entirety like on Hacker News, or summaries like you see all over social media) is actually a direct competition to the news business in a way that training an LLM on an article from months/years back isn't.
Yes, and for nonfiction, it's also true that it usually depends on the original article for credibility. (If it were an anonymous poster making up a news story, most people wouldn't believe it.)
And the vast majority of people read news for it's breaking content, not for its archived content from years before (and I say this as someone who has often recommended the latter, but has gotten very few people to do so). So giving people that free breaking content (either in its entirety like on Hacker News, or summaries like you see all over social media) is actually a direct competition to the news business in a way that training an LLM on an article from months/years back isn't.