So the NYT wants its content to be indexed by search engines, therefore makes it public to all crawlers, but then complains when some crawlers use the content to train AI on it? This issue is about the NYT wanting to lure internet users into its biased and politically motivated news website (and make them pay for it). If the NYT wants to they can block crawlers and rely on loyal readers typing nytimes.com in the browser. Easy. But competing is hard. It was easier when they could just control shelf space in kiosks