Image: Tom's HardwareMicrosoft director called AI scraping βthe largest theft of labor in human history,β while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an βexistential threatβ to publishers β revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit
β’ The New York Times filed legal briefs in its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies infringed upon thousands of news articles. β’ A Microsoft director described AI scraping as the largest theft of labor in human history, while another memo warned that the technology creates a doom loop that hurts both model performance and the web. β’ These internal admissions suggest that large language modelsβAI systems trained on massive datasetsβthreaten the economic foundations of the publishers that provide their essential content.
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