Linkup connects LLMs with premium content sources (legally)
If there’s no pre-existing financial agreement between content publishers and the entities scraping web pages, these bots are lifting content from the open web without paying, and many people aren't happy about that deal -- which is increasing regulatory scrutiny around AI training. There are also now high-profile legal cases in the frame, such as the ongoing lawsuit between OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and the New York Times, so the situation around web scraping could change in the near future. Hence why OpenAI has signed multi-year content licensing deals with major publishers such as AP, Axel Springer, Condé Nast, El País, the Financial Times, Le Monde, and others.