2026-09-17 21:07 UTC
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said. In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made “a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”
Fuck you pay me
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@WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 2026-09-17 22:25
It’s FAR too late for you to get on the right side of history just because you lost this one, Microsoft.
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@maol@awful.systems 2026-09-20 01:34
And he still works there! I guess it might be hard to get a new job with “presided over largest theft of labor in human history” on your CV.