Comment by gruez

>For Wikipedia, people look up sources to create some original work. They do it while citing the original work but that's not the major point. That's clearly all lawful, you are allowed to do that.

>For LLMs, people (or let a software do it, doesn't really matter) copy original work and use it for commercial purpose. If that's allowed fully depends on the license of the original work, but I didn't think anybody really beliefs that OpenAI and others check the license for every single original work they ever used. So it's basically the biggest copyright infringement ever.

So what makes wikipedia (and other encyclopedias) legal but chatgpt not legal? By your own admission citation isn't "the major point". Wikipedia might get a pass because it's a non-profit, but every other encyclopedias operate on the same model.