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Newly unsealed court documents reveal that Microsoft and OpenAI executives privately described their AI training practices as theft, with one Microsoft executive characterizing the data scraping as 'the largest theft of labor in human history.' The filings show both companies scraped paywalled content from publishers, including The New York Times, to build their AI systems, while internally acknowledging the practice could harm publishers.
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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.