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The New York Times

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Unsealed NYT lawsuit filings show OpenAI and Microsoft warned of an AI-driven “doom loop” for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft quote internal analyses saying the companies’ large-scale scraping and LLM deployment risked creating a ‘doom loop’ that would damage the web, undermine publishers’ referral traffic, and enable verbatim reproduction of copyrighted content. The filings include blunt internal language (attributed to figures such as Brent Hecht, Satya Nadella, and OpenAI staff) and show company debate and distancing in public statements and court filings.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

NYT and other publishers cite internal OpenAI and Microsoft messages in joint summary-judgment brief

The New York Times, the Daily News group, Ziff Davis, the Center for Investigative Reporting and others filed a joint 92‑page summary judgment brief in US federal court alleging OpenAI and Microsoft infringed copyrights while training AI, seeking billions in damages. The filing cites internal emails, Slack messages and sworn testimony that publishers say undermine the defendants' fair use defense and allege paywall bypasses, license violations, and measures to suppress evidence.

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REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Unredacted NYT filings show Microsoft/OpenAI execs called AI scraping 'theft' and warned models threaten publishers

Unredacted material from The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft quotes internal statements saying AI training practices amounted to ‘‘theft’’ and that models are ‘‘substitutive’’ or an ‘‘existential threat’’ to publishers. The filings allege large-scale scraping (including millions of NYT URLs in Common Crawl-derived data), internal projects sharing training datasets (e.g., Project Mango/Taxi and delivery of GPT-3 training data to Microsoft), and Microsoft metrics showing Copilot reduced NYT click-throughs by as much as 93%.

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