Tech
OpenAI and Microsoft Warned of Web Damage from Data Scraping
Unsealed court documents reveal that OpenAI and Microsoft warned they were starting a 'doom loop' that would damage the web. Their data scraping was described as the 'largest theft of labor'.
Coverage timeline — 1 article
The Verge
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor i
2026-09-18 21:07 UTC