Microsoft director calls AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
jonbaer · hn · 2026-09-20
New revelations from legal briefs in the NYT lawsuit against OpenAI show a Microsoft director describing AI scraping as "the largest theft of labor in human history," while an OpenAI head branded ChatGPT an existential threat to publishers. The remarks add fuel to the escalating copyright battle between publishers and AI companies.
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