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Claim Text: In 2020 Jack Clark, who was OpenAI’s policy director, wrote a memo to Mr. Brockman and Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive.
Simplified Text: In 2020, OpenAI's policy director Jack Clark wrote a memo to CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman.
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Claim Maker: The author
Context Type: News Article
Context Details: { "date": "2020", "role": "OpenAI policy director", "person": "Jack Clark", "recipients": [ "Greg Brockman", "Sam Altman" ], "document_type": "memo" }
Subject Tags: OpenAI Corporate History
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Created: 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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Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History

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https://nytimes.com/2026/09/17/technology/microsoft-openai-publishing-industry.html

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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