AI companies copying internet to train models biggest theft of labour in history: Microsoft executive
- Posted on September 18, 2026
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AI companies copying internet to train models biggest theft of labour in history: Microsoft executive
When AI companies like OpenAI, Microsoft and others started scraping vast amounts of internet data to train their models, not everyone inside the companies was happy about it. A Microsoft executive called the practice an “astonishing theft” and even described it as the “largest theft of labour in human history.”
