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Newly unsealed court filings in the New York Times' copyright lawsuit reveal that Microsoft and OpenAI privately described scraping news for AI training as a massive theft of labour and an existential threat to publishers. Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht called the practice
the largest theft of labour in human history
an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions
a complete mockery of the idea of 'fair use'
a doom loop
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Open source ↗Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Open source ↗Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit
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