New Docs in AI Copyright Suit Reveal Startling Admission by Microsoft Exec over ‘Astonishing Theft’
Internal filings say OpenAI and Microsoft bypassed paywalls and stripped copyright notices, while Microsoft data showed Copilot cut New York Times clicks by 93%.
- New court documents unsealed Thursday reveal Microsoft and OpenAI executives privately admitted their scraping practices pose an "existential threat" to news publishers, potentially undermining their legal defense.
- The New York Times and other outlets filed a landmark copyright lawsuit three years ago alleging the companies violated copyright law by training generative AI models on stolen content without compensation.
- Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht internally described the data scraping as "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions," while OpenAI leadership allegedly used hacks to bypass paywalls for training data.
- Attorneys for the news publishers argue these internal admissions prove the companies knowingly committed theft, rejecting claims that their products transform content in a manner consistent with fair use.
- Internal data shows ChatGPT prompts for reliable reporting reach about 1 million per week, largely substituting for paid subscriptions, as industry experts warn this "doom loop" threatens local news economics.
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NYT alleges Microsoft, OpenAI knew using news content was theft
OpenAI committed “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” when it used millions of news articles to train its artificial intelligence models, the New York Times alleged in a court document unsealed on Thursday.
OpenAI, Microsoft executives’ quotes on AI training threaten copyright defense, news outlets argue
By Blake Brittain Sept 17 (Reuters) - OpenAI and Microsoft executives privately described their AI products as substitutes for journalism, according to court filings made public on Thursday that the New York Times and other news outlets say gut the tec...
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” Those s…
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