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

    Leaked court documents reveal Microsoft executives privately criticized OpenAI's data scraping practices.

    Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

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    Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
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    This internal admission exposes a profound hypocrisy within the tech industry's approach to intellectual property versus corporate growth. It underscores the intensifying legal and ethical reckoning facing AI companies as they grapple with the sustainability of their data-scraping business models.

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