Court Filing Shows Microsoft Exec Called AI Training the "Largest Labor Theft in Human History"

In court documents released in The New York Times lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hecht said generative AI could be "the largest labor theft in human history." Internal OpenAI comments were also published, where Greg Brockman acknowledged that ChatGPT verbatim reproduces sentences from NYT articles. The companies insist on the fair use doctrine.

• Hecht: training AI on internet data is the largest labor theft in history
• Brockman acknowledged ChatGPT verbatim reproduces phrases from NYT articles
• Microsoft and OpenAI defend with fair use doctrine, comparing training to reading books
• NYT lawsuit filed in late 2023, copyright ruling not yet issued