{"slug": "unsealed-microsoft-court-filings-accuse-openai-of-labor-theft-via-data-scraping", "title": "Unsealed Microsoft court filings accuse OpenAI of labor theft via data scraping in NYT lawsuit", "summary": "Newly unredacted Microsoft court filings in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show a Microsoft executive privately described AI data scraping as \"the largest theft of labor in human history,\" according to TechCrunch and Tom's Hardware. The same filings reveal an OpenAI head branded ChatGPT an existential threat to publishers. The remarks surfaced during discovery in the NYT lawsuit over unauthorized use of copyrighted training data.", "body_md": "# Unsealed Microsoft court filings accuse OpenAI of labor theft via data scraping in NYT lawsuit\n\nAccording to TechCrunch and Tom's Hardware, newly unredacted legal filings from Microsoft reveal a Microsoft executive privately described AI data scraping as the largest theft of labor in human history. The remarks emerged during discovery in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft over unauthorized use of copyrighted training data.\n\n## Topics\n\n## Sources\n\n- Press[Read article](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal/)\n- Press[Read article](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-director-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-while-openai-head-brands-chatgpt-an-existential-threat-to-publishers-revelations-come-from-legal-briefs-filed-in-nyt-lawsuit)\n\n## Go deeper\n\nThis intelligence is sourced automatically from public sources across the web and synthesised by the Prefactor AI pipeline. Stories are reviewed before publication.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/unsealed-microsoft-court-filings-accuse-openai-of-labor-theft-via-data-scraping", "canonical_source": "https://www.getreadyforagents.com/news/microsoft-openai-labor-theft-scraping-court-filings/", "published_at": "2026-09-19 20:04:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-19 20:23:30.280145+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Microsoft", "OpenAI", "The New York Times", "TechCrunch", "Tom's Hardware", "ChatGPT"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/unsealed-microsoft-court-filings-accuse-openai-of-labor-theft-via-data-scraping", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/unsealed-microsoft-court-filings-accuse-openai-of-labor-theft-via-data-scraping.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/unsealed-microsoft-court-filings-accuse-openai-of-labor-theft-via-data-scraping.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/unsealed-microsoft-court-filings-accuse-openai-of-labor-theft-via-data-scraping.jsonld"}}