AI Firms Acknowledged Risks to Publishers

Newly unredacted court documents reveal that executives at OpenAI and Microsoft were aware that using copyrighted material for training large language models posed an existential threat to journalists. Internal communications show an OpenAI employee discussed a method to bypass The New York Times paywall, which company president Greg Brockman acknowledged.

Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hecht described the use of publisher content as an astonishing theft of labor.