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They pay their lawyers and whoever made this page a lot for the express purpose of credibly arguing that it is very clearly totally legal and very cool to use of any IP they want to train their models.

Could you with a straight face argue that the NYT newspaper could be a surrogate girlfriend for you like a GPT can be? They maintain that it is obviously a transformative use and therefore not an infringement of copyright. You and I may disagree with this assertion, but you can see how they could see this as baseless, ridiculous, and frivolous when their livelihoods depend on that being the case.