OpenAI's licensing deals seem to send a clear message: we're going to use your content anyway, so sign a deal with us or get left behind. The main perk of a licensing deal seems to be a prominent spot in ChatGPT's answers.
Gizmodo is free for readers largely due to the ads on this webpage. If readers can access our content through ChatGPT that breaks our business model. The New York Times, which is used significantly more in GPT-2's WebText dataset, sued OpenAI for copyright infringement over this very matter.
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