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According to one internal Microsoft document from 2023, "Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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A 2023 internal Microsoft document stated that people would soon see AI models using their work as an 'astonishing theft'.
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Internal Microsoft document
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News Article
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{
    "document_year": "2023",
    "document_source": "Microsoft"
}
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Copyright Artificial Intelligence Corporate Behavior
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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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