New York times made it ridiculously easy for anyone to access their content by putting it in WWW for making money from page impressions. And they started ingesting links of their content to social media, search engines, etc.
And now they are acting surprised someone used the content to train an LLM.
Should have done their job in the first place to prevent it from training LLMs and make it less.
But they didn't because that affects their page impressions and ad views.
Because the more open the content the more money they make everyone click on a link and see the ad.
You can't have it both ways.
If you do gambling by making content so open so you can get more views from ads, you also get to enjoy the consequences and not cry like a baby asking for billions by making stupid decisions in the first place.