Court unseals NYT v. OpenAI motions, revealing internal 'largest theft of labor' language
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-18
The court unsealed summary judgment motions in New York Times v. OpenAI/Microsoft, making it easy to see why the AI companies fought for so many redactions:
- The unsealed filings show OpenAI's own employees wrote of "the largest theft of labor in human history" and admitted their outputs are becoming "more and more substitutive" of NYT content
- These internal statements could become key evidence in the case, striking at the heart of the fair-use debate over training data
- The ruling could reshape how all AI companies source copyrighted training data
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