Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit
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The NYT argues that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed upon its copyright over thousands of news articles.

Full title: Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    24 hours ago

    And yet, the Internet also created the free culture movement. There has long been a vocal movement on the Internet for making copyright less restrictive. I have long been sympathetic to such; copying is not theft…

    So I don’t find that outrageous in isolation, though I do find it hypocritical because Microsoft is otherwise very much not a company in favor of less restrictive copyright, certainly not as far as its own source code is concerned.

    • terrrmus@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      I don’t think copying is theft either. But making money off something you copied totally is.