A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor
A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the company’s Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”. In a second document he called it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history”.
Hecht is a research scientist. He is not a board member and he is not the chief executive, which matters as the phrase travels.
The News Plaintiffs’ combined summary judgment brief sits in the consolidated OpenAI copyright litigation before Judge Sidney H. Stein. Redactions covered most of its damaging passages until Thursday.
Jason Kint of the trade body Digital Content Next spotted the unredacted version. George Hammond and Stephen Morris reported it that day for the Financial Times, Scott Nover and Gerrit De Vynck for the Washington Post, Jason...
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