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Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

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]]>https://citiverse.it/topic/2c1b929a-497a-413c-97e5-e18ad52be737/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-revealRSS for NodeSat, 26 Sep 2026 04:58:13 GMTFri, 18 Sep 2026 06:55:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:48:25 GMT]]>"laws for thee but not for me"

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27878075https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27878075Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:48:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:45:58 GMT]]>oh, those stupid microsoft fucks. 40 years ago, billy didn't understand what theft was either. nothing's changed.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27878030https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27878030Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:45:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:36:28 GMT]]>Law is class power.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27877887https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27877887Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:36:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:48:50 GMT]]>Those fuckers do read Marx, to our dismay.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27877083https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27877083Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:48:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:34:12 GMT]]>because that's how bourgeois democracy works. it's not really democracy, it's just the parasite class ruling the proles.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27874662https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27874662Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:34:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:38:25 GMT]]>Pot

Kettle

Black

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://programming.dev/comment/26058124https://citiverse.it/post/https://programming.dev/comment/26058124Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:38:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:41:18 GMT]]>Bastards

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27872355https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.ml/comment/27872355Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:41:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:22:04 GMT]]>I’m not sure they can be compared fairly. Slavery and AI scraping do both have “unpaid labor” in common. But “unpaid labor” is hardly the most horrific feature of either of them. And to reduce them down to that metric so they can be compared ends up downplaying the unique horrors of each.

I think the important part to take from the quote is that: he knew it was wrong, he knew the degree to which it was wrong was extreme, and he knew it was wrong in a particular way that the world hasn’t seen before.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://midwest.social/comment/26169494https://citiverse.it/post/https://midwest.social/comment/26169494Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:22:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:40:20 GMT]]>Yeah, it$ $uper confu$ing. I'm not really $ure why $ome can get away with it, while other$ have their live$ de$troyed for it.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/28179136https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/28179136Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:40:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:14:21 GMT]]>Quite easy. It's like my grade 5 essays which I didn't copy off Encarta, and changed a few words.

Plus, if you call it AI and add blinky words like "thinking" you can dodge it too

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25887395https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25887395Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:14:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:02:56 GMT]]>No its really very simple. Do you have a legal department: y/n.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25887283https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25887283Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:02:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:49:47 GMT]]>I really dont understand how the copyright laws can be so aggressive as to pursue individuals downloading songs or movies, but totally ineffectual against companies stealing huge volumes of data from all over the place, and repackaging it in LLMs etc. So bizarre.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25887172https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25887172Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:49:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:42:43 GMT]]>He's not wrong.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25887097https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25887097Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:42:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:21:45 GMT]]>That's why they're so popular with large companies.

Legalized way to steal and sell your work

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25886876https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25886876Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:21:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal on Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:09:23 GMT]]>While AI scraping is a massive theft of labor, I think chattel slavery has this beat.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25886767https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/25886767Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:09:23 GMT