Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
3 sources·Updated September 18, 2026
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- The Verge·11h agoOpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the…
Read at The Verge → - Irish Independent Business·1d agoMicrosoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labour’ in history, court records showRead at Irish Independent Business →
- Ars Technica·1d agoMicrosoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
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