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Unredacted filings show Microsoft exec called AI scraping labor theft

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Newly unsealed court filings reveal that a Microsoft executive privately described AI data scraping as "the largest theft of labor in human history." The documents show Microsoft and OpenAI scraped paywalled New York Times content, built datasets from it, and internally warned the practice would harm publishers.

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  1. Ars TechnicaMicrosoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
  2. TechCrunchMicrosoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal