Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Summary
TechCrunch reports on new unredacted filings in the NYT copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, detailing executives' statements describing data scraping as 'theft' and discussing paywall circumvention, training data collection, and potential impacts on publishers and labor. The piece highlights fair-use questions and internal observations about the risk to publishers' business models.