Microsoft knows it robbed publishers to train AI. It just doesn’t care
Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and its offspring Microsoft Copilot were launched, critics have pointed out that both products — and all other generative AI tools — have been built using billions of dollars of stolen intellectual property. Training AI models requires vast amounts of written material, especially books, newspapers, and magazine articles. OpenAI, Microsoft, and other Big AI…
Microsoft has long been aware of the theft of intellectual property used to train its AI models, yet it has remained indifferent to the consequences. This was revealed in new court documents from a lawsuit filed by The New York Times against Microsoft and OpenAI. The lawsuit claims that OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of Times articles without permission to train their AI, resulting in the loss of subscribers and ad revenue for the newspaper.
Internal memos and statements from Microsoft employees and executives confirm that they were well aware of the unlawful nature of their actions and the potential damage to the publishing industry.
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