Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

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.
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Microsoft’s internal documents reveal its concerns about OpenAI’s data practices, labeling them as “theft” for scraping paywalled content. The filings highlight a significant tension between tech companies and publishers over the use of proprietary information.

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