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Microsoft downplays director's 'largest theft of labor' admission in NYT suitOnline reaction wave calls the admissions damning
2 Sep 17 6:00 PM · 8d ago · 63 articles · 74 posts · 3 comments · 7 sources · development 2 of 5
The TechCrunch and 404 Media stories drew a large wave of social and forum reaction, with commenters framing the filings as confirmation that AI companies knowingly built products on stolen work, particularly content from marginalized creators.
“Hey so all tbe time they were stealing black content? And not knowing how to support culture? THEY KNEW”
blackamazon.bsky.socialBrent Hecht Microsoft Director of Applied Science
Satya Nadella Microsoft CEONick Turley OpenAI Head of ChatGPT
Greg Brockman OpenAI President/cofounderJordan Usdan GM, Data Strategy and Ops, Microsoft AI
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 12 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Tom's Hardware, 8d ago · also Decrypt, TechRadar, TechCrunch, Futurism
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- Microsoft Staff Asked If AI Scraping Was ‘Largest Theft of Labor in Human History’ Decrypt · 8d ago
- Microsoft exec said AI scraping was ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ lawsuit filings reveal TechRadar · 8d ago
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunch Mastodon · 8d ago
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal TechCrunch · 8d ago
- Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the "Largest Theft of Labor in Human History," Unsealed Court Documents Show Mastodon · 8d ago
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first by Financial Times, 8d ago · also WSJ, NY Post, New York Post, FT
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first by Mastodon, 8d ago · also Washington Examiner, 404 Media, Beehaw
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- OpenAI and Microsoft leaders knew AI may cause ‘doom loop’ hurting entire web Washington Examiner · 8d ago
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4 outlets OpenAI, Microsoft executives’ quotes on AI training threaten copyright defense, news outlets argue
first by Investing.com News, 8d ago · also Straits Times, Channel News Asia, Reuters
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first by RTE News, 8d ago · also Tech Xplore, Channel News Asia
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- NYT alleges Microsoft, OpenAI knew using news content was theft Tech Xplore · 8d ago
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first by Straits Times, 8d ago · also NYT
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Here is a Microsoft executive appearing to admit that AI training is massive theft.
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The unsealed motion for summary judgment in the NYT/OpenAI/Microsoft case is a banger. https:// arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 26/09/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history Full document: https:// cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content /uploads/2026/09/News-orgs-v-OpenAI-Microsoft-Memo-9-17-26.pdf
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Hey so all tbe time they were stealing black content? And not knowing how to support culture ? THEY KNEW BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN THE TECH OLOGY OF PRINT POST COLONIALISM EVER THUS
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An opinion piece is now a source of absolute truth apparently. All we have is a proposal from industry for the government to consider. They also received proposals from creative groups that AI companies need to obtain explicit permission from each creator and financial compensation before using anything but that doesn't seem to get much…
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woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the “largest theft of labor in human history”... “more and more substitutive...” /1
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RE: https:// infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11 7288549065128153 "Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said. In…
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A senior executive at Microsoft believes AI systems built on the work of others will be seen as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing lawsuit.
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It's sad that some people think there's any stopping these companies. Like as if even a government telling them not to would do anything. Threat of fines not enforceable in their country of operation or so pathetically small to a multibillion dollar company that it's a negligible cost of doing business? They don't give a shit. They've already…
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new unredacted filings in the publishers (including my employer) vs OpenAI and Microsoft lawsuit Microsoft's Director of applied science calls LLM training “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” asked MSFT and OAI for comment, nothing yet. NYT declines comment.
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“Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” an internal Microsoft document cited in the case read, adding “almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.”
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The unsealed motion for summary judgment in the NYT/OpenAI/Microsoft case is a banger. arstechnica.com/tech... Full document: cdn.
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What sort of goals? Every time I see them in the media, they want to ban something else, while making everyone's data insecure. Apart from sending some equipment to Ukraine, I genuinely can't think of something they did that was mediocre, let alone good.
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This might be the biggest admission in any of the 100+ AI copyright lawsuits. OpenAI & Microsoft execs admit the case is about “the largest theft of labor in human history”, that publishers face an “existential threat” from their products, and that those products
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"Court🚨just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in NYT v # OpenAI / # Microsoft . Easy to see why the # AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own ppl wrote the lede for NYT,🚨the "LARGEST THEFT OF LABOR IN HUMAN HISTORY"... "more & more substitutive. Straight from OpenAI's Brockman & Microsoft's Nadella🚨- 'doom loop' for the entire web…
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Per the lawsuit, a top Microsoft executive privately described the companies’ AI training practices as “theft,” and OpenAI’s own leadership said its AI models posed an “existential threat” to the publishers and journalists whose work trained them.
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Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - ‘doom loop’ for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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anyways all the torturous arguments these guys tried to make about slorking up the entire internet of human creativity? a big load of crap; they knew what they were doing, they even understood the implications. they laughed and did it anyway, not thinking they'd ever be held accountable. maybe they still won't be. https://www…
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OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”
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"It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers" is it though? https://www. 404media.co/doom-loop-openai-a nd-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/
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“Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft e...'Doom Loop': OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
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I'm sorry, but this stinks. It's exactly the same bullshit arguments that record labels, book publishers, and movie studios tried to sold the public when the people started massively sharing digital files of copyrighted works between them. The people who made these statements don't know absolutely anything about digital economics and intellectual…
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"In a motion for summary judgment that was unsealed Thursday from news plaintiffs led by The New York Times, internal documents are exposed that news groups alleged show exactly how Microsoft and OpenAI viewed the threat to news before unleashing new AI products like ChatGPT and Copilot. Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied…
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"The “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said. In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made “a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’” ______ Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of…
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"...attorneys used the quotes of Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hecht and OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman to essentially argue their case for them: that the AI industry built its foundation on an unfathomably large pile of stolen intellectual property." https://www. msn.com/en-us/technology/artif…
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