Image: Tom's HardwareMicrosoft 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
• The New York Times filed legal briefs in its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies infringed upon thousands of news articles. • 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. • These internal admissions suggest that large language models—AI systems trained on massive datasets—threaten the economic foundations of the publishers that provide their essential content.
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