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Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft include the companies' own warnings that they were starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web through scraping data to train models.
Why it matters: The documents are evidence in the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft over data scraping.
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