Microsoft Exec Warned AI Web Scraping Makes A Mockery Of Fair Use
The most vocal critics of generative AI view the technology as overt labor theft, due to how the underlying web scraping and AI training works, and internal documents from Microsoft and OpenAI revealed by The New York Times v. Microsoft and OpenAI echoed these concerns.
One internal Microsoft document described it as "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions," while ChatGPT development head Nick Turley posted in a June 2023 memo that AI posed "an existential threat" to publishers since AI becomes "more and more substitutive" as it gets better. Another Turley memo from that year in February stated that "no matter how prominently we show the (source) links, users won't click" and that AI products are "largely substitutive, period," a statement going against the fair use doctrine of transforming but not replacing the original work.
Additionally, Microsoft employees internally debated whether or not OpenAI was committing "the largest theft of...
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