Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.

Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
The short version
- For years, Microsoft and OpenAI have fought to keep certain information out of the public eye in their fight with news organizations that have accused the AI firms of teaming up to violate copyright laws by stealing tons of news content to train AI.
- However, now the details that should never have been marked confidential are starting to leak.
- Meanwhile, “almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use,” Hecht acknowledged in a Microsoft document.
What happened
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Why it matters
Ars Technica — AI says microsoft exec called ai scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” is the central development readers should understand.
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