Inside Microsoft and OpenAI, there’s worry about damaging the publishing industry

Karen Weise and Mike IsaacSAN FRANCISCO – Newly unsealed court documents showed considerable concern within Microsoft and its close partner OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop artificial intelligence systems.As OpenAI was forging ahead with its work, Microsoft employees debated whether what OpenAI was doing represented the “largest theft of labour in human history” and could create a “doom loop” that could ultimately threaten the quality of the large language models they were building.Get unlimited access to exclusive stories and incisive insights from the ST newsroom