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Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'.

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A Microsoft executive described OpenAI's web scraping as the 'largest theft of labor in human history,' reportedly amid concerns at both companies about ChatGPT training on millions of scraped news articles.

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