OpenAI and Microsoft execs knew scraping news sites could harm publishers, filing says
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-09-18
According to a legal filing reported by WSJ, top staff at OpenAI and Microsoft knew that scraping news websites to train their AI models may eventually damage those publications. The disclosure adds new evidence to the ongoing copyright litigation, suggesting leadership was aware of the risks in their training data strategy.
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