Not really. We had collage and training any kind of AI was fine before all this. There’s blood in the water and copyright companies can smell it.

OpenAI is happy to give them a piece of the pie if that means they are the only ones allowed to sell it to consumers.

You are right about the penalty being pennys compared to their profits. It’s not meant to punish them but help them build a moat, the one that got destroyed by China a few months ago.