Did OpenAI Pull Off the Biggest IP Heist of All-Time? — Live Feedhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/did-openai-pull-off-the-biggest-ip-heist-of-all-timeContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. Microsoft and OpenAI Staff Recognized AI Risks to Publishing Industryhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/did-openai-pull-off-the-biggest-ip-heist-of-all-timehttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/did-openai-pull-off-the-biggest-ip-heist-of-all-time#u77572Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:55:05 +0000Court records and unredacted filings reveal that employees at Microsoft and OpenAI were aware that AI scraping and chatbots posed an existential threat to publishers and journalists. One Microsoft executive described AI scraping as the largest theft of labor in human history. Internal discussions also touched on the potential for a doom loop for the web and the use of pirated books to train models. These documents suggest the companies recognized the damaging potential of their tools while developing them.Why it mattersThe publishing industry is currently battling AI firms over the unauthorize