You’ve just described Google which derives most of its ad revenue from ads it places on the search engine that’s crawling the public web. It has always been thus that derivative products that provide a meaningful transformation of the input is a wholly separate piece of copyright.
No, this is very different. Google will link you to the NYT, you read there, and see ads. If GPT eats the web and pay walls it, they are 100% free riding.
Now, I also think the Google model is proven at this point to be a bad model since the web is 90% ads and SEO dogshit. They strip mined the value, took them a while, but its nearly decimated.
The value of ChatGPT isn't that it regurgitates the NYT. The value is that it will read the NYT and the Washington Post and Fox News and The Guardian and everything else for you and synthesise a new view from it all that represents the viewpoint you ask for.
That's completely different to Google a d completely different to anything done before. It's as transformative as a human expert news analyst giving you a new perspective on a story.
