# Unsealed Microsoft court filings accuse OpenAI of labor theft via data scraping in NYT lawsuit

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> Published: 2026-09-19 20:04:21+00:00

# Unsealed Microsoft court filings accuse OpenAI of labor theft via data scraping in NYT lawsuit

According 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.

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- 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/)
- 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)

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