Filings reveal internal alarm over AI news scraping
Newly unsealed court documents show employees at Microsoft and OpenAI raised concerns about using millions of news articles to train artificial-intelligence systems, according to the New York Times and TechCrunch. The filings say Microsoft privately described some OpenAI data practices as theft and warned that large-scale scraping of paywalled material could damage publishers.
Why it matters
The disclosures sharpen the legal and commercial debate over whether AI developers may train models on copyrighted journalism without publishers' permission.
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Part of the September 18, 2026 brief.