https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-historyContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-historyhttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history#u75592Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:21:42 +0000Unredacted court filings show Microsoft and OpenAI executives privately described AI data scraping as theft while publicly claiming fair use. One Microsoft executive specifically labeled the practice the "largest theft of labor in human history." These internal communications emerged during a lawsuit involving The New York Times. The disclosures suggest a disconnect between the companies' legal defenses and their internal assessments of how AI training impacts human labor and copyright law.Why it mattersAI companies rely on massive datasets scraped from the web to train large la