Microsoft Exec Warned AI Web Scraping Makes a Mockery of Fair Use

Internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents disclosed in The New York Times lawsuit showed Microsoft called mass web data collection for AI training 'spectacular theft' and warned it makes the fair use concept meaningless.

• Documents disclosed in The New York Times lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI
• Internal correspondence called scraping 'spectacular theft'
• Microsoft lawyers warned the practice devalues fair use