New York Times Alleges Microsoft and OpenAI Knew AI Training Data Theft Was Unprecedented

The New York Times alleged in an unsealed court document that OpenAI committed massive theft by scraping over 10 million articles to train its AI models.

The filing cites Microsoft's Director of Applied Science calling the scraping an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions and the largest labor theft in history.

Microsoft argued the employee's statements represented an individual perspective rather than corporate views, while both firms maintain their use falls under fair use.