OpenAI and Microsoft Knew They Were Starting a ‘Doom Loop’ for the Web

Newly unsealed court documents from The New York Times‘ lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that both companies were aware their data scraping practices for AI model training could create a ‚doom loop‘ for the web. Internal documentation reportedly described this activity as the ‚largest theft of labor‘ in history, indicating prior knowledge of potential negative impacts.

Source: The Verge AI