If anybody in OpenAI ever had any second thought about taking other people's property without consent, that doubt should go away now with $1.5M in pocket.
Except that, unlike a human, this particular "reader" can then regurgitate millions of copies of that content and all other content it sees, in seconds.
I wish people would stop treating this topic like it's not nuanced. It clearly is not as straightforward as either side would like to think.
This argument is well fleshed from pirating discussions.