Unsealed Court Docs Reveal AI Execs Feared 'Largest Theft of Labor' in History
Newly unsealed court documents reveal that Microsoft and OpenAI executives internally described the use of copyrighted news articles to train AI models as the 'largest theft of labor in human history.' The filings, part of a landmark lawsuit by The New York Times and other publishers, highlight internal concerns that AI systems were circumventing paywalls and substituting for original journalism, challenging the companies' fair use defense.
