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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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[–] 22 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Remember kids, if you see someone who willingly works for a large company working on generative AI, be sure to give them their favorite salute: Sieg Heil!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person

    I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I’m actually a really good person.

    Let me give you an example...

    https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

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