Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'
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Court documents reveal Microsoft and OpenAI executives expressed concern over ChatGPT's training on millions of news articles, calling it a major labor theft and existential threat to publishers. The documents also show paywall bypassing and copyright removal in dataset creation, fueling a key ongoing copyright lawsuit by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft.
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