[detourdog]

The difference is that an individual pirating news is simply reading the article. OpenAI intends to digest news articles to the point of packaging them and reselling.

My uncle used to distribute daily newspapers and his saying was "News ages like a fish".

OpenAI is allegedly using NYTimes articles to train a computer and sell its services. I see different use scenarios.

I guess another way to look at it is that human just reads the pirated material. A computer makes a verbatim copy and analyzes it to the point to mimicry and sells fuzzy versions.