NYT Says Microsoft, OpenAI Knew Using Content Was Theft

NYT says Microsoft, OpenAI knew using content was theft

OpenAI committed "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions" when it used millions of news articles to train its artificial intelligence models, the New York Times has alleged in a court document unsealed yesterday.

OpenAI and Microsoft leaders knew AI may cause 'doom loop' hurting entire web

Top executives at OpenAI and Microsoft admitted they knew artificial intelligence poses an “existential threat” to news publications as the New York Times sues the technology companies over copyright infringement. Brent Hecht, Microsoft’s director of applied science, warned about the damaging effects that AI models will have on the internet and the company’s own business. […]

Staffers at tech giants knew AI tools posed ‘existential threat’ to news publishers: court docs

Unsealed court filings show Microsoft and OpenAI executives, including Brent Hecht, knew scraping news posed an 'existential threat' to publishers.

NYT claims OpenAI knew AI threatened publishers

OpenAI copied millions of copyrighted news articles while recognizing the "potential threat" its technology posed to publishers, lawyers for The New York Times alleged in a new court filing on Thursda...

OpenAI staff recognized AI's existential threat to publishers, New York Times claims in ongoing lawsuit

Discovery in the NYT v. OpenAI lawsuit reveals staff knew AI threatened publishers, with 160 outlets joining the landmark copyright case.