alt Hacker News> It does seem to be becoming the norm for AI companies to licence premium content in America, judging by the deals they're making.
This is a very surprising claim to me (and I imagine many small website owners who keep getting scraped by Anthropic and OpenAI).
Do you have a source?
There's been many news stories of it over the past year(s) as they signed each one. Here's the first result I could see with a rundown of many of them (am on mobile).
https://digiday.com/media/a-timeline-of-the-major-deals-betw...