>We access copyrighted material all the time though, as accessing copyrighted material is not always protected in the ways you describe.
sure, because there's an incentive to attract humans to view such content. It's advertising. Google images isn't built out of goodwill, but is now a target to optimize for to maximize human traffic to get human eyeballs to view ads (or paywalls) for humans consume more products. Having a bot come in ruins that, and the literal billions thrown at adtech to try to verify organic traffic shows that these bots are not desirable metrics for those who pay for ad space.
That perspective from a business lens shows the difference between a human viewing copyright material and a bot. Humans are monetization targets, bots are not. Humans can advertise for you to other humans, bots can't (well... not yet. But do we really want to be talking about ChatGPT ads this early in the LLM era?)
sure, because there's an incentive to attract humans to view such content. It's advertising. Google images isn't built out of goodwill, but is now a target to optimize for to maximize human traffic to get human eyeballs to view ads (or paywalls) for humans consume more products. Having a bot come in ruins that, and the literal billions thrown at adtech to try to verify organic traffic shows that these bots are not desirable metrics for those who pay for ad space.
That perspective from a business lens shows the difference between a human viewing copyright material and a bot. Humans are monetization targets, bots are not. Humans can advertise for you to other humans, bots can't (well... not yet. But do we really want to be talking about ChatGPT ads this early in the LLM era?)