Microsoft Workers Worry AI Bots May Be 'Largest Theft of Labor in History'

Microsoft and OpenAI workers have privately expressed concerns that their use of millions of news articles to develop AI bots may be the 'largest theft of labor in human history.'

The concerns were revealed in newly unsealed court documents as part of a case against the two firms.

An internal Microsoft document from 2023 warned that millions of people would consider large language models (LLMs) to be 'hoovering up' their work, describing it as an 'astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.'