Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit
Summary
Tom's Hardware reports on the NYT lawsuit alleging copyright infringement by OpenAI and Microsoft related to training AI models on news content. It cites internal memos where executives describe AI scraping as the 'largest theft of labor in human history' and discusses fair use defenses and the potential impact on publishers and the content supply chain.