Microsoft exec calls LLMs 'largest theft of labor in history' as internal doc warns of a web 'doom loop'
CackleRooster · reddit · 2026-09-19
A Reddit post relays striking admissions attributed to Microsoft and OpenAI executives: a Microsoft executive described LLMs as built on "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions" and the "largest theft of labor in human history," while an internal Microsoft document claimed generative AI has created a "doom loop" killing "the entire web." The framing echoes long-running criticism that LLMs are trained on scraped content and simultaneously degrade the open web that feeds them. The post is a secondhand summary of press reporting, so details should be checked against the original story.
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