Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human
💡 Why it matters
This admission, if authentic, provides a powerful quote for plaintiffs in ongoing copyright lawsuits against AI firms and could influence public opinion and regulatory scrutiny of data scraping practices.
Unredacted court filings show a Microsoft executive described AI data scraping as 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' escalating the debate over content use in training models.
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TechCrunch
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
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Ars Technica
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
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