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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Ars Technica AI · 17 Sept 2026, 20:10
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.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'