Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies obtained paywalled New York Times content, used it to build datasets, and assessed internally that the practice would harm publishers. The filings were released as part of a lawsuit brought by the New York Times against Microsoft and OpenAI. The documents contain internal communications between the companies regarding their use of copyrighted material in training artificial intelligence systems.

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