Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History
Newly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems.
TL;DR
- Internal Microsoft documents expressed concern that using news articles for AI development could be 'the largest theft of labor in human history'.
- Microsoft employees debated the potential for AI to create a 'doom loop' that could threaten the quality of large language models.
- OpenAI internal memos recognized that AI products pose an 'existential threat' to publishers and are becoming increasingly substitutive.
- These discussions were unsealed as part of a lawsuit filed by The New York Times and eleven other publishers against OpenAI and Microsoft.