Microsoft and OpenAI Executives Admit LLMs Built on 'Astonishing Theft' Destabilizing Web

A major crisis has been revealed within the AI industry, as top executives from Microsoft and OpenAI admitted to building their large language models (LLMs) on 'an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.'

The stunning admission comes in an unredacted court filing in the ongoing New York Times vs OpenAI copyright lawsuit.

According to the document, LLMs have created a 'doom loop' that is killing the entire web by stealing content from human creators and then cannibalizing clicks from the same sources, thereby destroying their business models.

Microsoft executive Brent Hecht wrote that LLMs steal content 'without ways of distributing economic value down the supply chain,' which threatens the economic stability of those who create the content.

OpenAI's policy director Jack Clark described the company as creating systems that substitute for human labor, while Microsoft acknowledged that their products could significantly disrupt the employment of the people who generated the data on which the foundation model was trained.