Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' filings reveal
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-09-18
Newly unredacted court filings show a Microsoft exec privately called AI scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history." Both Microsoft and OpenAI scraped paywalled New York Times content, built datasets from it, and internally warned it would gut publishers.
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