EventLegalSeptember 17, 2026

Unsealed NYT filings show Microsoft, OpenAI internal warnings on AI scraping

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Documents unsealed Thursday in the New York Times' copyright suit quote Microsoft's Brent Hecht calling news scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history" and a "complete mockery of fair use." One 2023 memo warned of a "doom loop" that would hurt model performance and the web.

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