Newly unsealed court filings in the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft include internal documents describing the companies' AI content strategy as a "doom loop" harming the web. Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht called data scraping the "largest theft of labor in human history." Spokesperson Alex Haurek told The Verge the comments reflect one employee's views, and Jordan Usdan's filing characterized Hecht's role as adversarial.
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