Internal Docs Warn AI Content Theft Could Break the Web

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Unsealed court filings show Microsoft executives describe AI training as largely pulling media content without fair compensation, creating a 'doom loop' that could degrade the web and the news ecosystem; the NYT lawsuit against OpenAI cites these statements about data scraping and paywall circumvention.
- Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a "Doom Loop" That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Useless Futurism
- Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History The New York Times
- Scoop: DOJ's copyright filing took key agencies by surprise Axios
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal TechCrunch
- OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web theverge.com
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