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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history，' new unredacted filings reveal
纽约时报诉 OpenAI 与微软案解封文件披露 AI 抓取被称为史上最大劳动窃取
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunch
TechCrunchNewly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
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