Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal
📍 The outcome
{ "epilogue": "Newly revealed court records in an AI copyright suit showed that Microsoft and OpenAI workers privately worried their tools posed an existential threat to publishers and described web scraping as the largest theft of labor in human history. News outlets argued that these executive quotes threatened the companies' copyright defense.
The story quieted without a definitive conclusion in the coverage." }
Epilogue added 47d ago, after coverage quieted.
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Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show washingtonpost.com · 50d ago broke it first
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