OpenAI and Microsoft Proceed Despite Knowing It's a 'Devouring Cycle'
Internal Documents Reveal: Both Companies Knew AI Was 'Consuming' the Internet but Chose to Ignore It for Massive Profits
The latest unsealed documents in The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show that both companies had internal warnings as early as 2022 about their AI training data scraping practices triggering a 'doomsday cycle'—described as 'the largest-scale labor theft in history' and a threat to the economic foundation of online content. Despite being fully aware of the irreversible harm to the publishing industry, the companies chose to continue their current trajectory.