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Unsealed NYT filings: OpenAI, Microsoft execs called AI training on publishers 'theft'

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Newly unsealed court filings in The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that ChatGPT's head wrote publishers face an 'existential threat,' and a Microsoft executive called AI training on copyrighted content 'an astonishing theft' and 'the largest theft of labor in human history.' The filings also show both companies scraped paywalled Times content and built datasets from it, with internal warnings it would gut publishers.

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  1. Techmeme
    NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)

    Financial Times : NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” and a Microsoft executive called AI training “an astonishing theft” — Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content

  2. TechCrunch AIRebecca Bellan
    Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

    Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.