Unsealed Microsoft court filings accuse OpenAI of labor theft via data scraping in NYT lawsuit

According to TechCrunch and Tom's Hardware, newly unredacted legal filings from Microsoft reveal a Microsoft executive privately described AI data scraping as the largest theft of labor in human history. The remarks emerged during discovery in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft over unauthorized use of copyrighted training data.

Update (2026-09-24): According to Mother Jones and Publishers Weekly, unsealed legal documents from OpenAI-Microsoft copyright cases reveal executives discussing a research mission to systematically replace human authors and acknowledge potential legal liability for unlicensed training data us...