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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Microsoft and OpenAI scraped and trained on paywalled content, bypassing paywalls and affecting publishers like The New York Times
- Date it happened
- 2026-09-17
- Organisation involved
- Microsoft
- Product, system or model
- Copilot
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