Unsealed documents: a Microsoft employee called training SI on others' texts "the largest theft of labor in history"
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The dispute over who owns the knowledge SI learns from is reaching a decisive stage, and how much future models will cost depends on its outcome.
In The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, an internal memo from Microsoft's director of applied science Brent Hecht, dated January 2023, has been disclosed. The materials also indicate that OpenAI's training data contained more than 91 thousand copies of material from the NYT, the Daily News and other publications, that copyright notices were stripped from the texts, and that click-throughs from Copilot to the NYT site fell by as much as 93%. The Trump administration supports OpenAI's fair-use position, but documents on harm to publishers weaken that argument.
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