Unsealed documents show Microsoft, OpenAI executives aware of ethical concerns

In the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, internal documents were made public. Microsoft's director of applied science, Brent Hecht, called news scraping for AI training 'the largest theft of labor in history' and 'a mockery of fair use,' while ChatGPT head Nick Turley warned of an 'existential threat' to publishers.

• Hecht: news scraping for AI is 'largest theft of labor in history'
• Microsoft documents describe a 'doom loop' harming models and the web
• ChatGPT head Turley: publishers face 'existential threat'
• Documents unsealed in NYT lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft