The Washington Post September 18, 2026 • 02:19

Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show - washingtonpost.com

By Scott Nover, Gerrit De Vynck

Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show - washingtonpost.com

The quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.

A Microsoft executive called the training of artificial intelligence modelsthe largest theft of labor in human history, according to a legal brief filed by the New York Times and unsealed Thursday. I… [+123 chars]

More from The Washington Post