A Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘theft of unprecedented proportions.’

Incourt documents unredacted Thursday, lawyers for theNYTin itscopyright infringement case against Microsoft and OpenAIcited Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht,saying that“millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions… almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.” TheOrlando Sentinel, which is also part of the suit, reports a Microsoft filing “framed Hecht as someone on the payroll to play a contrarian.” A free daily digest of the news that matters most.