NYT lawsuit briefs reveal Microsoft director called AI scraping 'largest theft of labor in history'
beingmodest · reddit · 2026-09-20
Legal briefs filed in the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI have revealed striking internal statements, per Tom's Hardware: a Microsoft director described AI scraping as "the largest theft of labor in human history," while an OpenAI head branded ChatGPT an "existential threat" to publishers.
The revelations offer a rare inside look at how AI company figures privately view training-data practices, at odds with public messaging, in one of the most consequential copyright battles in the industry.
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