2026-09-18 00:22 UTC
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/52443941
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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@UsernamesAreForSuckers@lemmy.world 2026-09-18 03:16
I mean, slavery comes to mind….
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@moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 2026-09-18 03:49
Ideas aren’t property, ass-hat. You can’t steal publicly available information.
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@AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2026-09-18 05:48
Remember kids, if you see someone who willingly works for a large company working on generative AI, be sure to give them their favorite salute: Sieg Heil!
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@nosuchanon@lemmy.world 2026-09-18 07:53
It’s just slavery with extra steps.