[wongarsu]

Or rather, the others don't have preexisting agreements due to previous grievances.

For OpenAI this would be the first violation of regulations about news content reproduction. That would be lengthy court case with an uncertain outcome. But Google already went through such a court case (before Gemini was a thing), settled, and now with Gemini violated the settlement agreement. Showing that they violated the settlement agreement is much easier and quicker, so that's the news you get today.

[ben_w]

Indeed. I was about to link to the news from December that the New York Times is suing OpenAI for using their news articles.

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/byvrkxbmgpe/...

I have no legal training, so my guess is as good as coin flip for how this is going to turn out.

[seanmcdirmid]

That one seems to be NYTimes not understanding how LLM's work, and will hinge on technical clarifications (either OpenAI used NyTimes articles in training their model [fault], or the NyTimes seeded their prompt with enough article snippets to reproduce it [not at fault]).