Court Filings Expose AI Giants’ Admission: Web at Risk From Stolen-Content Training
TL;DR
Unsealed NYT v. OpenAI filings reveal Microsoft and OpenAI executives admitting LLMs are trained on stolen content, cannibalize the sites they copy from, and threaten the web’s economics and workers’ livelihoods; the documents describe a “doom loop” that could undermine publishers and calls into question training practices and fair-use defenses.
- ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft 404media.co
- Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show The Washington Post
- OpenAI staff knew the ‘existential threat’ AI posed to publishers, New York Times claims Financial Times
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” Ars Technica
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal TechCrunch
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