…Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”

Those statements and a series of other mask-off moments feature heavily in an unredacted court filing that was unsealed Thursday… documents and depositions that until now had remained either sealed or redacted at the request of Microsoft and OpenAI.

…AI, the tools they have already built were created by stealing from human creativity and labor and are by definition existential threats to the human labor market…

The filing was written by lawyers for the New York Times but is largely comprised of statements and interviews with big tech executives that admit both that LLMs are largely trained on stolen content, that they represent an existential risk for the human writers, artists, and media companies that they stole from…

Source [archived; 2026-09-18 02:43:57 Z]

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