https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/microsoft-and-openai-workers-worry-about-largest-theft-of-labor-in-historyContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/microsoft-and-openai-workers-worry-about-largest-theft-of-labor-in-historyhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/microsoft-and-openai-workers-worry-about-largest-theft-of-labor-in-history#u76140Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:10:40 +0000Newly unsealed court documents reveal that employees and executives at Microsoft and OpenAI privately worried that training large language models on millions of news articles constituted the largest theft of labor in human history. Internal communications show staff warned that scraping copyrighted material without permission risked damaging the publishing industry and trapping systems in a doom loop, even as both companies publicly defended the practice as fair use.Why it mattersThe disclosures shed light on the internal friction within major artificial intelligence companies regarding copyri