Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunch
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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.
  • auzy1@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    That’s why they’re so popular with large companies.

    Legalized way to steal and sell your work

    • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I really dont understand how the copyright laws can be so aggressive as to pursue individuals downloading songs or movies, but totally ineffectual against companies stealing huge volumes of data from all over the place, and repackaging it in LLMs etc. So bizarre.