[godzillabrennus]

They probably didn’t start with a lawsuit. They started asking for royalties. They probably didn’t get an offer they thought was fair and reasonable so they sued.

These media businesses have shareholders and employees to protect. They need to try and survive this technological shift. The internet destroyed their profitability but AI threatens to remove their value proposition.

[user432678]

Sorry, how exactly LLM threatens NYT? Are people supposed to generate news themselves? Or like wait a year or so before NYT articles are consumed by LMMs?

[denton-scratch]

NYT doesn't just publish "news" as in what happened yesterday; they also publish analysis, reviews of books and films, history, biography and so on. That's why people cite NYT articles from decades ago.

[mc32]

I’m ambivalent.

On the one hand, they should realize they are one of today’s horse carriage manufacturers. They’ll only survive in very narrow realms (someone has to build the Central Park horse carriages still), but they will be miniscule in size and importance.

On the other hand, LLMs should observe copyright and not be immune to copyright.