AI Firms Knew Chatbots Were an ‘Existential Threat’ to Journalists, Court Docs Show
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Court documents reveal AI firms like OpenAI and Microsoft knowingly used copyrighted texts to train chatbots, acknowledging the practice as a massive theft and an existential threat to publishers. Executives discussed bypassing paywalls and recognized the need for licensing paywalled content.
- OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web· The Verge
- Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'· Engadget
- OpenAI AI training called 'astonishing theft' in unsealed documents· Anadolu Agency English
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal· 5 sources
