Microsoft memo in NYT v. OpenAI case calls AI training scraping largest labor theft
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-19
A January 2023 internal Microsoft memo by Brent Hecht, surfaced in the NYT v. OpenAI and Microsoft case, calls AI training scraping the largest theft of labor in human history. Filings also allege paywall bypassing and stripped copyright notices. The poster cautions these are plaintiff characterizations of discovery documents, not court findings.
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