[surfingdino]

It's a clever way of getting around the accusations of stealing content. They can say that they are scraping it to make it searchable, just like Google.

[toxik]

It will be interesting to see what happens to copyright claims against ChatGPT. Google can just remove claimed content from its index, what will OpenAI do?

[surfingdino]

Use their legal and PR fund to fight back.

[kweingar]

If all you have to do to beat these claims is throw money at the problem, then why haven't the other (better funded) search engines done that?

[surfingdino]

Clogged arteries, i.e. layers upon layers of risk-averse and clueless management. Top management paralysed by what the stock market may think of their ideas. You could also ask why Bing has been forever underperforming despite all the cash Microsoft has throw at it so far?

[kweingar]

I'm talking about the copyright claims. If Bing and Google stand down when people request their sites to be removed, how would OpenAI have the resources to push against that?

[surfingdino]

Logic need not apply. Lawyers will be paid to work around that.