Microsoft, OpenAI lose fight to hide internal docs admitting scraping is theft
pseudolus · hn · 2026-09-18
A court rejected Microsoft and OpenAI's bid to keep internal documents sealed in their copyright litigation. Among the unsealed material, a Microsoft executive reportedly called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history.' The ruling exposes internal discussions about training-data practices that could shape the ongoing copyright battle.
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