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In February 2023, an OpenAI software engineer wrote to colleagues that, “no matter how prominently we show the links, users won’t click.”
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An OpenAI software engineer wrote in February 2023 that users do not click on links shown in AI products.
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1.000
Claim Maker
OpenAI software engineer
Context Type
News Article
Context Details
{
    "date": "February 2023",
    "organization": "OpenAI"
}
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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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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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