{"slug": "ai-training-built-on-fair-use-looks-shaky-when-the-companies-own-people-call-it", "title": "AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it \"astonishing theft\"", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\"\n\nThe article [AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it \"astonishing theft\"](https://the-decoder.com/ai-training-built-on-fair-use-looks-shaky-when-the-companies-own-people-call-it-astonishing-theft/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-training-built-on-fair-use-looks-shaky-when-the-companies-own-people-call-it", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/ai-training-built-on-fair-use-looks-shaky-when-the-companies-own-people-call-it-astonishing-theft/", "published_at": "2026-09-18 15:27:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-18 15:56:32.091159+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Microsoft", "ChatGPT", "The Decoder"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-training-built-on-fair-use-looks-shaky-when-the-companies-own-people-call-it", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-training-built-on-fair-use-looks-shaky-when-the-companies-own-people-call-it.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-training-built-on-fair-use-looks-shaky-when-the-companies-own-people-call-it.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-training-built-on-fair-use-looks-shaky-when-the-companies-own-people-call-it.jsonld"}}