NYT Says OpenAI Committed 'Theft of Unprecedented Proportions' Using News Articles to Train AI
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A document published on Thursday at the trial brought by the daily against OpenAI and Microsoft reveals internal messages evoking "the greatest theft of work in the history of humanity" and an "existential threat" to publishersL-Unauthorized use of millions of articles from the New York Times to develop models of artificial intelligence (AI) from OpenAI appeared to be a "surprising flight of unprecedented proportions," according to an internal m…
New York Times alleges Microsoft, OpenAI knew using news content was theft
The document claims Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hect, called it "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions" and possibly the "largest theft of labor in human history."
January 2023. A Microsoft executive named Brent Hecht writes an internal memo and doesn't go around. He calls the practice of feeding artificial intelligences with other people's newspaper articles "an amazing theft of unprecedented proportions" and even "the greatest theft of other people's work in the history of humanity." It is not ... Continue reading "They reveal emails where Microsoft and OpenAI recognize that their AI made "the greatest t…
In December 2023, The New York Times, the third-largest newspaper in the United States by circulation, sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used its content to train a generative AI model. Documents related to this lawsuit revealed that a Microsoft executive had described AI-powered data scraping as "the greatest labor theft in human history."
The uncensored records of the trial that the New York Times filed against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago have just been made public, and the content is more explosive than the trial had already revealed. The documents under judicial supervision of TechCrunch and Bloomberg Law reveal that while Microsoft and OpenAI publicly argued... Continue reading »The News Unwritten NYT vs OpenAI documents reveal that a Microsoft executive called AI's s…
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