Microsoft and OpenAI Internal Documents Unsealed

Unsealed court documents from The New York Times copyright lawsuit reveal internal concerns at Microsoft and OpenAI regarding AI training data. Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht described the scraping of news articles as an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions, potentially the largest theft of labor in human history.

OpenAI leadership acknowledged that generative AI models pose an existential threat to publishers. The lawsuit involves over 10 million scraped articles.