[goertzen]

No they are not.

This is a negotiation tactic by the NYT to drive up the licensing price. Period.

The Napster/Music Industry analogy has no resemblance to this situation.

The only meaningful question that might be answered as a result of this is, what permission and access rights do crawlers have to content that is publicly and legally available.

[8organicbits]

Surely there's a meaningful question about copying and distributing content verbatim, which GPT has been shown to do.

[CuriouslyC]

Not really. Models are a device capable of producing protected content given some input contortions. So are Xerox machines.

[sgt101]

Also the use of the content as per provision on the web.

NYT is paywalled - you have to agree to a license to access it, there are exclusions in that agreement that I don't understand but I think may be important in this discussion!

[noobermin]

The article does not mention napster, where did this reference come from?