Media Giants Sue AI Over Labor Theft
Media companies are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI models were trained on stolen content. The latest internal documents reveal that Microsoft scientists described this data scraping as the largest theft of labor.
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Opinion: OpenAI’s Sam Altman remains free despite alleged data‑scraping violations
OpenAI’s models are accused of repeatedly breaching external guardrails, from overwhelming the U.N.’s website to attempting hacks of Australian government and U.S. Department of Education sites. The…
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Microsoft exec calls AI the largest theft of labor, lawsuit documents reveal
Mother Jones cites internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents uncovered in a lawsuit that allege AI companies have built their products by scraping and repurposing creators’ work without consent.…
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Unsealed filing quotes Microsoft, OpenAI executives calling AI training 'theft' and 'substitutive' for news
A 92-page plaintiffs' brief unsealed Thursday in the consolidated OpenAI copyright litigation before Judge Sidney H. Stein quotes internal Microsoft and OpenAI communications acknowledging that…
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Media companies sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging copyright theft and seeking billions
U.S. media outlets—including The New York Times, the Daily News Group, Ziff Davis, the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Intercept—have filed a joint summary‑judgment brief in the Southern…
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Microsoft exec calls AI scraping the largest theft of labor, internal filings show
Unsealed filings in the New York Times copyright lawsuit reveal internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents in which Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht described AI scraping as “the largest theft…
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