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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal (techcrunch.com)
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/52443941

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

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[–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

To go deeper - I would say stealing labor is what the powerful have always done. They found a new way to steal it, but it’s the same old playbook. We create, they take the majority of the value generated and act like they’re doing us a favor. Power is a parasitic enterprise.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    I would agree with that, although until recent history many more people (as a percentage of concurrently existing people) were less under the thumb of others. Now virtually everyone has some tyrant large or small taking their labour (or as a Marxist would say surplus labour value).

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