Unsealed court documents reveal OpenAI and Microsoft internally acknowledged their data scraping practices could trigger a 'doom loop' that damages the web. Microsoft's own Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht characterized the scraping as the 'largest theft of labor in human history' and called it a mockery of fair use, though the company has since distanced itself from his statements.
- Source
- The Verge
- Published
- Sep 19, 2026 at 05:07 AM
- Score
- 8.0 / 10