Microsoft exec warned AI could create a ‘doom loop’ for the internet

Newly unsealed court files show that what AI companies say behind the scenes doesn’t always line up with what they tell the public. In a legal brief unsealed this week, an executive at Microsoft described OpenAI’s choice to train its models on news articles and other human-published content as the “largest theft of labor in human history.” The brief came to light through a copyright lawsuit the New York Times filed against Microsoft and OpenAI in 2023 over their practice of using the pa...