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Mr. Clark, who later left to co-found Anthropic, wrote that the start-up’s work “is going to increasingly lead to us creating systems that substitute for the labor of the people that define the ‘culture’ of society.”
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Jack Clark, who later co-founded Anthropic, wrote that OpenAI's work would lead to systems that substitute for the labor of 'culture' creators.
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Jack Clark
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News Article
Context Details
{
    "date": "2020",
    "person": "Jack Clark",
    "organization": "OpenAI",
    "document_type": "memo",
    "future_affiliation": "Anthropic"
}
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September 18, 2026 at 7:11 PM (3 weeks ago)
Last Updated
September 18, 2026 at 7:11 PM (3 weeks ago)

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Newly unsealed court documents reveal internal concerns within Microsoft and OpenAI regarding the use of millions of news articles to train AI systems. Employees debated whether this constituted the 'largest theft of labor in human history' and posed an 'existential threat' to publishers.

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