Unredacted filings reveal Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
sbulaev · hn · 2026-09-18
Newly unredacted court filings reveal that a Microsoft executive described AI content scraping as "the largest theft of labor in human history," per TechCrunch. The candid internal remark, surfaced through litigation, could fuel ongoing copyright disputes over AI training data.
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