EQUIPThe Verge · 1h ago
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
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Unsealed court documents reveal OpenAI and Microsoft internal warnings regarding the destructive impact of AI training on the digital ecosystem. The records describe large-scale data scraping as a significant labor theft that threatens the economic viability of original content creators.
- 01Internal documentation acknowledged a potential doom loop damaging the web's foundational information structure
- 02Company records characterized massive data scraping as the largest theft of labor in human history
- 03Legal proceedings involving The New York Times highlights systemic risks to content-driven business models
- 04Executive awareness of these risks preceded the widespread commercial deployment of generative AI models
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Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]