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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

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…

  • Microsoft exec calls AI scraping 'largest theft of labor in human history'
  • AI training deemed theft, existential threat to publishers
  • OpenAI, Microsoft used paywalled content covertly for training

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