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TechUnredacted filings reveal Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history’

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately described OpenAI’s data practices as “theft.” Both companies scraped paywalled New York Times content to build datasets and internally warned that the practice could gut publishers.

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TTechCrunch★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 19:46Original

Unredacted filings reveal Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history’
Unredacted filings reveal Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history’Tech