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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal

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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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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-09-18 11:22 · Engadget
    Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'
  2. 2026-09-18 01:12 · New York Times Technology
    Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History
  3. 2026-09-17 23:19 · r/antiai
    Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
  4. 2026-09-17 20:10 · Ars Technica AI
    Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
  5. 2026-09-17 19:46 · TechCrunch AI
    Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal

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