OpenAI and Microsoft Knew They Were Starting a 'Doom Loop' for the Web
Court docs show OpenAI & Microsoft internally flagged their own AI training as web-destroying and legally indefensible.
- 01Newly unsealed filings in the NYT's lawsuit reveal that OpenAI and Microsoft's own internal documentation predicted a "doom loop" degrading the open web, described their data-scraping practices as potentially the largest labor theft in history, and questioned whether fair-use arguments could hold.
- 02Much of the sharpest language originates with Microsoft's Director of Applied Science.
- 03Microsoft is now distancing itself from those assessments—a posture that may prove difficult given the documentary record.
Court docs show OpenAI & Microsoft internally flagged their own AI training as web-destroying and legally indefensible.
Newly unsealed filings in the NYT's lawsuit reveal that OpenAI and Microsoft's own internal documentation predicted a "doom loop" degrading the open web, described their data-scraping practices as potentially the largest labor theft in history, and questioned whether fair-use arguments could hold. Much of the sharpest language originates with Microsoft's Director of Applied Science. Microsoft is now distancing itself from those assessments—a posture that may prove difficult given the documentary record.
Watch: How Microsoft and OpenAI's courtroom credibility holds under internal documents that directly contradict their public fair-use defenses.
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times ' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it made a "complete mockery of the idea of fair use." Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht. Though, the company has tried to distance itself from Hecht's assertions.
Read the full article at theverge.comRecently unsealed court documents in the New York Times ' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it made a "complete mockery of the idea of fair use." Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht. Though, the company has tried to distance itself from Hecht's assertions. Microsoft spokesperson Alex Haurek told The Verge that "These comments ref … Read the full story at The Verge.
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