2 outlets covering this story
Internal Records Reveal Microsoft and OpenAI Staff Worried AI Development Constituted Labor Theft
By Rhyter Times Desk · 2h ago
Employees across both Microsoft and OpenAI privately voiced alarm that utilizing millions of journalistic pieces to train artificial intelligence models could amount to immense appropriation, according to reporting from the New York Post and The New York Times. The internal anxieties were brought to light through newly unsealed legal filings, The New York Times reported.
According to both outlets, staff members raised questions regarding whether the practice of deploying millions of news articles to build automated AI systems might represent the “largest theft of labor in human history.”
How outlets are covering this
Internal concerns surfaced among workers at Microsoft and OpenAI regarding the use of millions of news articles to train artificial intelligence systems, according to reports from The New York Times and the New York Post. Disclosed through unsealed court records, the discussions show employees questioning whether the practice constituted an unprecedented theft of labor.
Shared reporting
- Workers at both Microsoft and OpenAI privately voiced concerns about their companies' artificial intelligence development.
- Millions of news articles were used in developing the AI systems or bots.
- Employees characterized the practice as potentially the largest theft of labor in human history.
Different framing
- The New York Times specifically attributes the revelation to newly unsealed court documents, whereas the New York Post's summary frames the story around the private concerns of the workers without explicitly mentioning court records.
Why it matters
The disclosures suggest that ethical and legal apprehensions surrounding data harvesting and intellectual property exist even among engineers and personnel building top commercial AI platforms.
Create a free account to keep reading
Reporting is our own AI-assisted writing, synthesized from the outlets sourced below. A free account gets you 3 of these a month, no payment needed.
Or keep browsing our free aggregated sections in the meantime.
Sources
- Microsoft, OpenAI workers privately worried their work is ‘largest theft of labor in human history’
New york post · 2h ago
- Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History
The new york times · 15h ago
Written by AI from the outlets' reporting listed below.
Last updated 2h ago.