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Microsoft downplays director's 'largest theft of labor' admission in NYT suitMicrosoft distances itself from Hecht's remarks
5 Sep 21 8:52 AM · 5d ago · 23 posts · 1 comment · 3 sources · development 5 of 5
Microsoft spokesperson Alex Haurek said Hecht's comments reflect a single employee's personal view, not company policy, while a separate Microsoft filing from Jordan Usdan characterized Hecht as holding deliberately adversarial, academic views not representative of Microsoft's position.
“These comments reflect one employee's individual perspective, are not a legal analysis, and do not represent the company's views.”
Alex Haurek, Microsoft spokespersonBrent 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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As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science calls ChatGPT and Copilot’s harvesting of data the “largest theft of labor in human history” and says that Microsoft’s defense makes a “complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”
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From the excellent @ jasonkoebler on @ 404mediaco : "OpenAI’s and Microsoft’s lawyers have been trying to argue that their model training is fair use and transformative under copyright law and that they are building something that is fundamentally different from the human labor that it was trained on. But internally, these executives know that…
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Somebody should throw molotov cocktails at the contributors of CommonCrawl[1], for they have "stolen" from "the people". /s obv.It never ceases to amaze me how people affirm the concept of intellectual property, enforced by states, while maintaining "exceptions" that are fundamentally incompatible with the very concept of what they are…
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A Microsoft executive has called AI training practices "the largest theft of labor in human history," according to new files in our lawsuit against OpenAI.
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Microsoft director: “[LLMs are the] largest theft of labor in human history.” Internal Microsoft doc: "Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions… almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they…
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what’s to stop Microsoft from attempting to improve their competitive advantage by surreptitiously using their role as a MiTM between end user Corporations and Model serversMassive lawsuits from companies that have enterprise data protection contracts with them?
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"One Microsoft document even described a “doom loop,” news orgs said, “that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time.”" MS is secretly concerned about imploding journalism and public discourse... because it will hurt AI training.
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“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time: It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain,’” the…
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No wonder LLMs are "better" every year. No juest scraping, they train on more and more data people send to them. So basically, it steals other people's data to sell back to you.
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A Microsoft exec called AI's web scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history." Unsealed filings show 91,692 copies of news articles sitting in training sets. Your posts are feedstock too. The app is free because you're not the customer you're the crop.
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OpenAI head of ChatGPT Nick Turley allegedly warned internally that publishers faced an "existential threat" because the products were already "largely substitutive." Microsoft director Brent Hecht was blunter, predicting creators would view language models hoarding their data as "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." (All Ai is…
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Ars Technica - Article "Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”"... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... ========================== #librecanada #linux #opensource
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Ahora que se están haciendo públicas versiones sin censurar de documentos del juicio NYT vs. OpenAI, podemos leer que desarrollaron un "hack para saltarse el muro de pago del NYT" y que informaron de ello a Greg Brockman, cofundador de OpenAI, que respondió "ah, nice"
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Microsoft exec calls AI scraping the "largest theft of labor in human history," Belgian judge upholds site blocking order and Sony/Universal sue Suno again. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/09/21/3... Sources: @arstechnica.com, @variety.com #Copyright #AI #OpenAI #Suno #Microsoft
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https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal/ [2/2]
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Not saying you, but lots of people still don't understand that it's infinitely closer to autocomplete than thought. They built an autocomplete engine, thought will never spring from that. It can't. ---
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