AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it "astonishing theft"

Unredacted court filings reveal that Microsoft executives privately described OpenAI's data scraping practices as the largest theft of labor in human history. The documents indicate that both companies expressed internal concerns that scraping paywalled content from publishers would ultimately undermine the media industry. This disclosure highlights a significant tension between the firms' public support for AI development and their internal awareness of the legal and ethical risks associated with training models on proprietary intellectual property.