Microsoft exec called AI data scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history,” with filings revealing private labeling of data practices and paywalled Times content scraping; both companies built datasets from it and warned 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"
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- 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, 20:16 UTC Ars Technica AI Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”