Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunch
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Newly 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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Newly 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.

  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 days ago

    What? Ideas absolutely can be property. Hence copyright and patents.

    I’m pretty sure if I wrote a book called the “Adventures of Harry Potter,” I would get sued immediately.

    • _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 days ago

      I’m pretty sure if I wrote a book called the “Adventures of Harry Potter,” I would get sued immediately.

      Just call it Perry Hotter. Disrupting the female world of sorcery with his magic wand of love.

    • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      And if a slave wanted to leave work, they could be murdered. Because at one time, we considered people could be property

      There’s a difference between what is right and what is legal.