Court Filing Shows Microsoft Exec Called AI Training the "Largest Labor Theft in Human History"

Court documents made public this week show that Brent Hecht, Microsoft's director of applied science, cautioned that people could view large language model training as the "largest labor theft in human history." The filing surfaced Hecht's internal warning about how the use of copyrighted and human-produced data to train AI models would be perceived.

The court documents made public this week show that Brent Hecht, Microsoft's director of applied science, had cautioned that people could view large language mo Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post Court Filing Shows Microsoft Exec Called AI Training the "Largest Labor Theft in Human History" https://www.ghacks.net/2026/09/20/court-filing-shows-microsoft-exec-called-ai-training-the-largest-labor-theft-in-human-history/ appeared first on gHacks https://www.ghacks.net .