OpenAI and Microsoft Were Warned Their AI Scraping Created a Web 'Doom Loop,' Court Filings Show

Unsealed documents in the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal the companies' own internal warnings that their practices would start a "doom loop" damaging the web. Their documentation described scraping data for AI training as the "largest theft of labor in human history" and a "complete mockery of the idea of fair use." Many of the most striking quotes come from Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht.