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AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it "astonishing theft"

Internal emails and sworn testimony from OpenAI and Microsoft employees undercut the companies' fair use defense for AI training data, according to The Decoder. A Microsoft director described the practice as the "largest theft of labor in human history," while OpenAI's head of ChatGPT wrote that the products "are largely substitutive, period.

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Internal emails and sworn testimony undercut OpenAI and Microsoft's fair use defense. A Microsoft director described the practice as the "largest theft of labor in human history," while OpenAI's head of ChatGPT wrote that the products "are largely substitutive, period."

The article AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it "astonishing theft" appeared first on The Decoder.

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