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Microsoft, OpenAI exec called AI training data 'theft of labor'
Court documents in an AI copyright lawsuit reveal that a Microsoft executive described the use of training data for artificial intelligence as the 'largest theft of labor' in history. The executive, Mustafa Suleyman, who is also a co-founder of Inflection AI and previously worked at Google DeepMind, made the statement in a private communication. The documents, which are part of a lawsuit filed by authors and news organizations against OpenAI and Microsoft, suggest that the companies were aware of the potential legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of copyrighted material for AI training. Suleyman's comments were reportedly made in a private message to a colleague.
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- Left (2): The New York Times, The Washington Post
- Centre (3): CNBC, Channel News Asia, Chicago Tribune