Would be funny if NT Times won this and all commercial LLMs were shut down.
Then LLMs would be distributed only via torrents, like most copyright infringing media.
Then LLMs would be distributed only via torrents, like most copyright infringing media.
I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to convince the EU though, the EU has an history of giving up rights and markets to big copyright holders even if that hurts the local companies.
LLM's will become more expensive and less attractive as money printers, this will screw with the business models of the direct provision folks like OpenAI, MS and Google, MS and Google will only shed tears for money spent while OpenAI will just not have as good an income stream until they think of something new.
So you will use a Chinese AI that spies on you, or you will use some shady service from a shady country (that will play cat and mouse like torrent sites).. or most likely you will run your own model when you are computer literate and no model if you are not.
Actually most models are so lobotomized allready that probably better to run your own, as long as you have a good enough computer.
No need to emigrate!
I'm sure that's what they want, but I'm not sure that's what the outcome will be. What if they want to charge a prohibitive amount of money for their content?
I think Spotify vs Napster is a good example, content creators in news (the Journalists) are already in a hard place (vs. successful rock stars preinternet) I think that the news providers are rather like the music lables.
The LLM genie is out of the bottle: an unfavorable court ruling in a single country isn't going to stuff it back in.
On the other hand, if LLM are used to "launder" copyright content and, accepting the premises of copyright law, this has the effect of reducing incentives to do creative work, that has obvious negative implications for economic productivity.
Assuming this is in good faith: the ability to write code, documentation, and tests is absolutely a productivity enhancer to an existing programmer. The code snippets from a dedicated tool like copilot are of very usable quality if you're using a popular language like Python or JS.
Why?
Loading data to which you have no rights over into your software is legally perilous, yes.
It's as easy as simply asking for and receiving permission from the data's rightsholders (which might require exchange of coin) to make it not legally perilous.