Mother Jones amplifies findings on social media
2 Sep 22 10:40 AM · 1d ago · 2 posts · 2 sources · development 2 of 2
Mother Jones's official account promoted the article on X, framing the brief as revealing how tech leaders talk "when they think no one is listening."
“Jaw-dropping documents from our lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening: We may have pulled off "the largest theft of labor in human history"”
@MotherJonesMonika Bauerlein Mother Jones writerBrent Hecht Microsoft director of applied science
Mother Jones Plaintiff / news organizationOpenAI DefendantMicrosoft Defendant
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Mastodon, 10h ago · also Mother Jones
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first by Techdirt, 10h ago
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Our lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft argues that the companies built their immensely valuable product via “the largest theft of labor in human history.” Actually, those aren’t our words. They came from Microsoft’s director of applied science, Brent Hecht.
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Jaw-dropping documents from our lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history”
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# MotherJones # sued # OpenAI and # Microsoft for using our # copyright ed work, along with vast amounts from others, to # train their # models . # Documents uncovered as a result of the # lawsuit # show # executives and AI # developers openly # discussed the serious potential # harms of their tech—even, in one case, acknowledging that they might…
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The law has fair use exemptions, the court said this is a fair use exemption, so you can tell me all you want how it’s illegal in your mind mind or whatever, but from a practical sense it looks legal. I get you don’t like it, but it seems to legal. Same way I don’t like movies like King Kong still being covered by copyright despite having came out…
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Have been thinking a LOT about this outright theft. Context is news scraping but AI has stolen from so many authors, too. And in Anthropic suit writers are now jumping through hoops to get 50% (less legal %!) of what *might* be $3000 a title. For AI it is a pittance.
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We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.” https://www. motherjones.com/politics/2026/ 09/openai-chatgpt-microsoft-copyright-legal-case-documents-revelations/ This is what Microsoft’s director of applied science had to say about training their AI model on copyrighted content from our newsroom and many others, according…
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It is absolutely nothing like stealing physical property. The fact that we let companies like Disney bribe Congress members like Sonny Bono to give them decades or even more than a century of police and court protection for items they either copied from the public domain like the little mermaid or items they bought like Star Wars, Pixar, X-men…
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An AI executive said their web scraping was the "largest theft of labor in human history".
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TL;DR: A Microsoft employee's assertion that AI scraping represents 'the largest theft of labor in human history' has sparked debate on the legality of copyright infringement, but many argue it doesn't equate to theft under the law. https://www. techdirt.com/2026/09/23/copyri…
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I've seen LLMs generate literal copies of functions from libraries I've written or are familiar with, with matching function and variable names, in its output with zero attribution in complete disregard to the license. That isn't learning, its copying, encoding it in the LLM model data.
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They knew this would happen, and execs warned it was illegal and would destroy the internet. But no concequences for tech bros, eh?
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You don’t say. https://www. motherjones.com/politics/2026/ 09/openai-chatgpt-microsoft-copyright-legal-case-documents-revelations/
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This some wildly pedantic stuff. The knowledge is ingest once use many, that's the difference. Just like any book could be copied by hand before the printing press, but the press was set once print many.
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