Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers. The filings, revealed in a lawsuit, expose internal concerns about the impact on news organizations and the scale of data collection from subscription-based sources.