Internal Memos Warn AI Training on News Could Be the Largest Theft of Labor
TL;DR
Newly unsealed court documents reveal Microsoft and OpenAI expressed serious concerns that training AI models on millions of news articles could amount to the largest theft of labor in history, potentially undermining paywalled publishing and the quality of their language models; the companies argue the training falls under fair use and is transformative, while publishers seek licensing and stronger protections as the case proceeds.
- Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History The New York Times
- 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
- ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft 404media.co
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