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Ernie Smith

This is an interesting take on the NYT’s OpenAI case from @mmasnick.

Less an argument against the merits of the case, more a presentation of how the NYT’s arguments undermine common practices like aggregation, or, y’know, reading competitors’ coverage.

techdirt.com/2023/12/28/the-ny

Techdirt · The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI Would Open Up The NY Times To All Sorts Of Lawsuits Should It WinThis week the NY Times somehow broke the story of… well, the NY Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft. I wonder who tipped them off. Anyhoo, the lawsuit in many ways is similar to some of the over a doz…
Dec 28, 2023, 10:29 PM·Public·Pinafore
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Andreas K

@ernie @mmasnick 🤷 Not the first time that "big corp" argued that law X applies to their competitor or some new use, but obviously, the same arguments and X do not apply to what they have been doing, DESPITE that the equivalence is obvious.

See, we have been doing this for a long time, so it must be legal. THEY started doing it last year, so it must be obvious criminal, right?

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