Unsealed Microsoft Docs Call AI Data Scraping 'Largest Theft of Labor'

Newly unsealed court documents reveal that Microsoft executive Brent Hecht described AI data scraping as "the largest theft of labor in human history" in internal files surfaced during a copyright lawsuit, sparking widespread coverage and debate.

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