It's part and parcel of the LLM field's usual disdain for any property rights that might belong to other people. What they did here is not categorically different than scraping every author and visual artist on the internet - but in this instance they've gone and brazenly "copied" (read: stolen) from one of the few folks with more media clout than they themselves have.

> ChatGPT is way better than to need stupid ripoffs than this

Of course it’s not. All of ChatGPT is a ripoff. That’s what training data (which they did not license) is.