Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data scraping "the greatest theft in history"

Newly declassified court documents reveal that Microsoft internally described OpenAI's data collection practices as "theft" and the greatest misappropriation of others' work in history. At the same time, both companies independently downloaded paywalled New York Times content, created datasets from it, and internally warned that this would destroy publishers. The documents emerged in copyright litigation.

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