> to someone with rights to serve the contents

Now THAT'S doing some heavy lifting lmao. The vast, vast, VAST majority of the original datasets were from pirated books and the like. Also, arguably a robots.txt is the exact mechanism to follow to do the mass GET-ing, yet the AI cos choose time and time and time again to simply ignore it and be as abusive as they possibly fucking can

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gpm 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> The vast, vast, VAST majority of the original datasets were from pirated books and the like

And there's been significant legal consequences as a result

> Also, arguably a robots.txt is the exact mechanism to follow to do the mass GET-ing

You're free to argue this of course, but the courts have largely rejected it already pre LLMs. See for example hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn

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fooblaster 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, anthropic and openai have really been brought to their knees and ipos cancelled because of the legal consequences of obtaining their training data.

	▲	gpm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This would have been a problem but it turns out that Anthropic is actually valued multiple orders of magnitude more than a copy of all the books in the world. So they survived the significant legal consequences.