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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

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Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor…

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-09-19 13:45 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
  2. 2026-09-18 21:07 · The Verge AI
    OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
  3. 2026-09-17 22:01 · 404 Media
    ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

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