OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Summary

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly show the companies' own documentation warned of a "doom loop" that would damage the web. The documents also characterize scraping data to train models as the "largest theft of labor in human history." Many quotes come from Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, whose assertions Microsoft has tried to distance itself from.

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