Microsoft exec calls AI scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history” in unredacted filings; filings reveal data practices scraped paywalled Times content and built datasets, with warnings it would gut publishers
Read the original at techcrunch.com→Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
Original headline: "Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal"
Coverage timeline
- Sep 17, 19:46 UTC TechCrunch AI lead source Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
- Sep 17, 20:10 UTC Ars Technica AI Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
- Sep 17, 22:37 UTC Hacker News (AI) Docs in AI copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec
- Sep 18, 21:07 UTC The Verge AI OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
- Sep 19, 18:21 UTC Hacker News (AI) Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'