Microsoft Called AI Training 'Theft'

🔥 What happened Newly unredacted court documents in the NYT lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal a top Microsoft executive privately called AI training "theft" and "the largest theft of labor in human history." OpenAI leaders admitted their models pose an "existential threat" to publishers. 💡 Why it matters Microsoft's own data shows Copilot slashed click-through rates to nytimes.com by up to 93%—a "doom loop" that could harm the entire web. The filing also reveals 91,692 NYT copies in OpenAI's mid-training dataset and over 2 million nytimes.com documents from Common Crawl. ⚡ Our take When Microsoft's own execs call it "theft," the fair use defense becomes a farce. The AI industry built its business model on the backs of publishers—now it's catching up.