Unsealed documents reveal Microsoft executives' awareness that Ai scraping under the guise of fair use was, "...the greatest theft of labor in human history." Side effect: Mining news for Ai training also decimated news organizations' ability to perform their important public service. In defense of Ai, though, the use of automated plagiarism is dumbing down the population to the point where there will soon be nothing left worth scraping. https://www.wonkette.com/p/openai-and-microsoft-knew-their-sht #Ai #Microsoft #OpenAi #NewsMedia