Unsealed filings reveal AI giants warned of a 'doom loop' harming the web
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Unsealed New York Times court filings show OpenAI and Microsoft executives warned that scraping data to train AI could damage publishers and the web, describing a doom loop and criticizing fair use; the documents discuss ChatGPT memorizing copyrighted material, a drop in publisher referral traffic, and concerns about undermining their own data supply chain, with company spokespeople later attempting to distance themselves from those statements.
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- Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show The Washington Post
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal TechCrunch
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