TechOpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed documents in The New York Times’ case against OpenAI and Microsoft say the companies warned internally that their AI content strategy could damage the web. The filings describe data scraping for model training as “the largest theft of labor in human history,” while Microsoft says the remarks reflect one employee’s personal views, not the company’s position.

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