Microsoft filings label OpenAI data practices as theft
September 17, 2026
Unsealed court documents reveal Microsoft internally described OpenAI's data scraping as theft. The filings detail the use of paywalled New York Times content to build datasets, despite internal warnings about publisher impact.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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founderThis increases the legal risk of building datasets from paywalled web content.
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policyThis provides further evidence for intellectual property regulation in AI training.