Court docs reveal Microsoft internally predicted a web "doom loop" from AI
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-19
Newly surfaced court documents show Microsoft internally anticipated that AI scraping and generated content could push the web into a "doom loop," and described AI's harvesting of web content as "the greatest theft of work" in history. The filings reveal a side of Microsoft's thinking that contrasts with its public posture.
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