The US New York Times has taken the step of suing ChatGPT-owner OpenAI over claims of copyright infringement when using the NYT to train its LLM. [bbc.co.uk...]
tangor
4:32 am on Dec 28, 2023 (gmt 0)
Wonder how that will work out. NYT is quoted by significant other sources, putting the content out there under other distribution, so that proving such a claim might be problematic.
That said, whatever is on the web is already on the web and most USERS (sic) consider that content free unless a subscription is required.