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Microsoft and OpenAI's AI Scraping Practices Under Legal Scrutiny

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New unredacted filings in the copyright lawsuit by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that a Microsoft executive described AI scraping as 'theft' and that AI products pose a significant threat to publishers. The documents detail how the companies allegedly bypassed paywalls and stripped copyright notices while building training datasets from scraped content.

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The unredacted filings provide new admissions from Microsoft and OpenAI regarding their AI training practices and the impact on publishers, which were not previously disclosed.

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Confirmed Fact

AI scraping was described as 'theft' by a Microsoft executive.

Confirmed Fact

OpenAI's models pose an 'existential threat' to publishers.

Confirmed Fact

Microsoft's Copilot caused a 93% drop in click-through rates for The New York Times.

Confirmed Fact

OpenAI's mid-training datasets contained over 91,692 copies of works published by The New York Times.

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

TechCrunch·1h ago