Court unseals motions in NYT v. OpenAI, exposing 'largest theft of labor' internal language
kyliebytes · x · 2026-09-18
The court unsealed summary judgment motions in New York Times v. OpenAI / Microsoft, revealing why the AI companies redacted so much. Strikingly, the harshest framing came from the companies' own people: internal language calling the case the "largest theft of labor in human history" and describing models as increasingly "substitutive" — wording that could bolster NYT's market-substitution argument. The outcome will shape the legal boundaries of training data use.
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