NYT Filing: AI Execs Called Training 'Astonishing Theft' — SkimNews
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- A NYT court filing reveals ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat," while a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft," both surfaced in the copyright lawsuit
- Lawyers in the same filing characterize Greg Brockman, an AI co-founder, as "motivated by the gazillions" he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content
Why it matters: The filing surfaces AI company insiders using language that acknowledges the financial stakes of copyrighted training data — calling it 'theft' and a threat to publishers — language that could be used against OpenAI and Microsoft in court and strengthen the NYT's negotiating position on licensing or damages.
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